Peter Reeve provided this photo of the Barge Aground, which his father used to run in the 1940s.

His father, Edward John Reeve, originally ran the Bull at no. 350. During WW2 the nearby gas works were a target for the German bombers, causing the landlord of the Barge Aground, George Pinchin, to leave.

Fuller Smith & Turner, owners of both the Bull and Barge Aground, asked Peter's father if he would run the Barge Aground as well as the Bull and he agreed to: he ran the Bull until late 1944 and the Barge Aground until June 1952; he then moved to Hounslow to run the Cross Lances and stayed there until his death in 1972.

Peter remembers the newpaper shop next door at no. 363 being bombed in WW2 and a pond being made on the site as an emergency water supply to tackle any incendiary bombs.

Beyond the advertising hoardings is Distillery Road and then a three storey building: this was numbers 351 - 355 High Street, owned by Messrs J Dorey in 1909/10.

Details of this area.