The Chequers
High Street/ Chapel Street junction
This building was built in the 16th century with a central hall and two projecting cross wings. The southern cross wing is not now part of the pub but is the shop formerly Goodspeed’s, now a restaurant. The northern end has had additions and the building has undergone many alterations during it’s lifetime.
It is thought that the building was originally the farmhouse from Chantry Farm and there are stories that there was a tunnel from here to the Chantry House opposite.
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I had my first pub pint in the chequers, I would have been about 15 around 1973/4 it cost me the princely sum of 15p. A lady ran the pub then and she would tolerate underage drinkers as long as you behaved. She sold up and the pub was taken over taken over by a large cockney bloke who’s name totally escapes me.
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