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A reminder of the southern end of Cross Street when it was little more
than a country lane. The timbered building on the left is sixteenth -
century Pembroke House, a former farmhouse which became an inn. It still
exists as possibly the oldest public house in Tenbury
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A closer view of Mount Lodge, or Mount Cottage, seen in the background
of the picture on the left. On the corner of the road to Bromyard, it
was originally the lodge to the house called The Mount, and possibly once
served as a tollhouse.
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After its use as a farmhouse, Pembroke House became a cider house selling
particularly potent rough cider made in Tenbury. In the 1930s its preference
switched to beer and it changed its role to that of a more conventional
public house.
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The National School, 1905, in the Bromyard Road. this was built in 1855
by the architect, James Cranston, who was responsible for the Round Market,
the Corn Exchange, and the Pump Rooms. The boys had their playground on
the left and the girls on the right; the new extension is on the left.
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The Crow Hotel is another of Tenbury's seventeenth- century hostelries.
Once boasting extensive stabling, it was considerably altered by the Victorians
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A turn-of-the century view of the bridge over the little Kyre Brook, with
part of the Crow Hotel on the left. Through the trees in the background
can be glimpsed the Pump Room which was built in 1862 following the discovery
of mineral springs in 1839.
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