The Board Hotel - opened by 1842. It was owned by the Gibbons family, who owned a brewery on the site of 33 High Street. Although called a hotel, it never offered accommodation. The Gibbons sold the pub to the Co-op in 1945, and the Co-op continued to operate it as a pub until 1979, when Kenneth Cope the actor bought it and turned it into an up-market restaurant The Epicure. It has continued as a restaurant ever since, variously as Lombard's, then Baker's, and now The Bay Leaf Indian restaurant.

Picture and info: Dave Awcock