I once had the pleasure of visiting the Red Lion in Stodmarsh & meeting Robert Whigham who was already outside a few sharpeners by early afternoon. He featured on the tv programme 'The Red Lion', unfortunately truncated to one episode when I thought much more could have been made of the topic - how could the Snargate version not feature?
Anyway, Robert was a delight, as was his pub - memorable, also, for having ducks & chickens wandering in & out from the garden!
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