

A very good old friend came to visit yesterday and we went for lunch to a very good old inn. I’ve been visiting the Old White Beare in Norwood Green for more than half a century, but that’s only a moment in the life of this 500-year-old village pub. Some of the timbers within the pub are even older, having been part of an Elizabethan galleon that took on the Spanish Armada. Seated within such history, we felt quite young.