Originally Posted by
NickDavies
I lived across the road for a few months, must be 35 years ago now. As well as the two ladies there was the old man Aldington himself, who always wore a regimental blazer and a younger guy who I guess must have been a son of one of them. John Bonser says it's still in the Aldington family today. We were a bunch of twenty year old lads sharing a flat. We liked our beer and it was a cracking area for pubs, what with Strand on the Green and then Kew Green over the bridge as well as that little corner. But we always treated the Express Hotel as the 'local'.