The Red Cow looking much smarter here and what looks like large piles of brushwood, stakes and poles stacked around the small shed that is now where the Red Cow car park is. It looks like someone was perhaps running a fencing and hedging business - do we know any...
The Red Cow Public House has stood at the centre of Chrishall for many many years. At one time there were several pubs in the village, including The Gate which stood just at the back of the Red Cow in Church Road. There was also the Moon and Stars at Broad Green....
The photos below are from the Bruce Drury Collection (taken by John Harvey) and date from the mid 1960s. The occasion appears to have been a car rally.
The photo on the left probably dates from the early 1970s. At this time the pub was a Flowers house.
The photo above is from the Bruce Drury collection and helps to identify the location of the roadmending scene below. (The Red Cow is behind the horse's head and the barn is behind the man on the cart). The dates of these two photographs are not known but they would...
(You can zoom the image above - click your mouse over it to see a larger version.) The old picture postcard view above probably dates from the 1920s. The Red Cow dates from Plantagenet times. The shed behind the carrier has been demolished many years and a second...
