c 1940's - An old photograph of the George and Dragon Inn at Codicote (UK) . The original Elizabethan building is shown before the plaster rendering was removed from the woodwork. When it closed the half timbered building it became a Chinese restaurant. In 1279, Laurence the Taverner was its landlord and in the 1400's had the name 'The Greyhound'. Hertfordshire recruits were enrolled here to defend Hertfordshire from the Young Pretender in 1745 and legend links it to a highwayman William Page, who was captured and executed at Hertford in 1758.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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