The "White Lion" was orginally built as a private residence for the King family around 1657, and was known as Kings Farm. It became a pub and posting house in the mid 1700's. It is reported that the composer F Liszt stayed there in 1840. The pub had…
The white painted pub is the Shoulder of Mutton, behind which is the decorative end of the Council Offices. The chimney is on Bridge Mill, and behind the shop with the blind, for many years Bonsall's hardware sop, is Linden Mill..
Looking across St George's Square to the Shoulder of Mutton on Bridge Gate. The structure on top of the building on the left of centre was a water tank but is now gone.
Looking across St George's Square to the Shoulder of Mutton on Bridge Gate. The structure on top of the building on the left of centre was a water tank but is now gone.
Looking across the square to the Shoulder of Mutton, with the Council Offices behind. Note the shop on the left, Innovation, which opened here on 7th Nov 1969 and then moved to Bridge Mill in June 1976.