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Hoar Cross History #65

...h quality bar and restaurant - a far cry from its farmyard origins!  (see header picture) Next to the Meynell pub was a blacksmith’s Forge.  Here in the 1860s worked blacksmith William Tooth who lived in the village with his wife Mary; he had worked on the ironwork of the Hall during its construction and was the village ‘smithy’ for many years afterwards.  He and his wife became grandparents to a young girl called Inez Large who became the schoolroom maid at Hoar Cross Hall in the 1920s.   Mary Tooth’s sister, Constance Madeley, was the wife of the landlord at the Buffalo Inn in the nearby village of Newborough and it was through her that Inez secu...