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« on: Sunday 17 January 10 15:37 GMT (UK) »
The Bell Inn was a very old square brick building that was demolished back in the late 1950s, along with the humped bridge it stood on, for the widening of the A38
The Bell was on the left side of the main road coming from Lichfield, near to the Fradley South housing estate and close to Dunstall Cottage and the old derelict garage that used to be Boggis's garage.
Historically it was a beerhouse rather than a pub, the difference between a pub & a beerhouse being that a pub could sell both spirits and beer.
The Jones and Fisher families, who were related, kept The Bell for many decades during the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.
Courtesy of the author on a forthcoming book about the village
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