Around the Village Photographs
26 - Royal British Legion, Nottingham Road
Previously this was the site of the blacksmith’s forge of Thomas Carver, which was worked until about 1940. Not only were the many horses of the village supplied with their shoes here but miners had their picks sharpened here too. The smithy was a general meeting place for the village men folk being converted into a “Better ’Ole” following WWII, still with its thatched roof. Unfortunately due to an electrical fault it was burnt down in 1952 and subsequently rebuilt as the British Legion in the form you see today.
Beside Gotham ex-service men it serves Clifton and East Leake members too. Gotham History Society hold their meetings in this building.
In the days of the blacksmith there were a grocers, police station, post office and surgery on the opposite side of the road.
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