{"id":17999,"date":"2017-08-15T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17999"},"modified":"2017-08-15T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:55:07","slug":"pubs-a-chalky-penis-and-pavement-history-a-look-around-the-streets-of-chepstow-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/pubs-a-chalky-penis-and-pavement-history-a-look-around-the-streets-of-chepstow-south-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Pubs, a chalky penis and pavement history: a look around the streets of Chepstow, south Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s my second short collection of photos of the small border town of Chepstow in south east Wales, taken as I headed to and from the nearby Green Gathering festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The George Hotel, formerly The George Inn, is located next to the Chepstow Town Gate at the foot of Moor Street, and once served as an important coaching inn.<\/p>\n

Although there has been an inn on the site since 1620, the current building dates from 1899.<\/p>\n

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The work of a local artiste<\/em> was displayed on the pavement. True street art, if you will.<\/p>\n

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Old buildings on Welsh Street.<\/p>\n

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The Kings Head is open late on\u00a0Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n

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Looking east along the High Street.<\/p>\n

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The Town Gate was historically the only landward entrance to the town through the Port Wall, and a point where tolls for those resorting to the town and its market were collected.<\/p>\n

Originally built in the late thirteenth century, the current archway mainly dates from the sixteenth century and is a Grade I listed building.<\/p>\n

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I love these pavement plaques listing the former occupants of businesses along the High Street.<\/p>\n

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Old British coins are also included.<\/p>\n

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Looking along the High Street to the Town Gate.<\/p>\n

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War memorial.<\/p>\n

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The old world charm of St Mary Street.<\/p>\n

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Looking for a bargain.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately closed when I passed by, the\u00a0Tiffin Vintage Tea & Coffee House is\u00a0open from “Monday to Saturday from 10am until we run out of cake.”<\/p>\n

I like word tiffin, and its usage has an interesting history:<\/p>\n

In the British Raj, where the British custom of afternoon tea was supplanted by the local Indian practice of taking a light meal at that hour, it came to be called tiffin. It is derived from English colloquial or slang tiffing meaning to take a little drink, and had by 1867 become naturalised among Anglo-Indians in the north of British India to mean luncheon [—<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Parish and Priory Church of St. Mary features an ornate west doorway dating from the late 11th century, and is a Grade I listed building.<\/p>\n

More Wales photos here<\/a>.
\nChat about Chepstow on the forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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