A new Mitchells & Butlers pub, inter-war years

“I remember the Hair and hounds pub quite well, it was next to the old kingstanding post office and paper shop owned by old Miss Ryan. … we would climb into the H& H beer garden where they kept crates of empty beer bottles when the beer garden was closed, we used to borrow a few of the empty’s and take them around to the outdoor at the front of the pub and collect the 2 Pence on each bottle”

“I used to live next door to the Hare and Hounds in the Bungalow I did exactly the same with the empty beer bottles until they got wise and ripped the labels.I delivered newspapers from the post office for five years and knew Miss Ryan and her brother very well.”

“I also recall during the war the american soldiers ( the Yanks ) sitting all along the wall outside the H/H and sending us young lads to fetch Fish and Chips from across the road … I also remember the air-raid shelter across the road from the H/H.”

“Can anyone tell me how many terraces there were at the back of the hare and hounds before you reached the centre terrace overlooking the marvellous bowling green. … Do if they remember landlord Mr Lowe who wore sandy coloured plus 4s (or 6s) … Does anyone also remember old Ernie who worked in the cellars??”

“My grandfather was Teddy Lowe … He retired in early sixties.”

“I well remember the Hare & Hounds as a child. We lived in Cranbourne road. I left there in 1948”