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Have only just seen this post.  I lived at Crown Farm in Fradley (on A38) and the pub next door was called the Bull's Head (Coates and Rollitt families lived there when I was about).  The pub was pulled down around the 60's and a garage was built on the site.  I remember the threshing machine visits!  Mr Jones (was it Bill?) would come and there was always great excitement - it being the culmination of our harvest time.  Harvest festivals in the church - St Stephen's - (accompanied by a very 'wheezy' organ) were well attended, as was the Harvest supper in the village hall.  There were other 'Jones'es in the village.  Betty was a hairdresser and Richard a vet, who joined the Lichfield practice of Alastair Steele-Bodger, though I can't remember whether they were related.  Archie Elson and the Woolley brothers were also farmers there.  Dr Platt was the local GP and the Hardy family ran the Post Office.   Further up the main road - towards Lichfield - there were other farmers (the Collins family) in the building that is now the Fradley Arms,  At the turn off for Whittington - just before Boggis's garage - stood Mr Collingwood's Farm and this was also the Slaughterhouse.  Miss Wright operated the gates over The Roddidge level crossing.  Far too many memories of the place to detail here, but happy to give any more information you may consider useful.