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The Lamb Inn. Image: Terry’s the Barber moved in 1999 to a new purpose built ground in Hitchin Road, the original site was a prime location for housing, this is now Howberry Green and Lamb Meadow. Further along Station Road, almost to the footbridge over the railway, we see Acre Wood Children’s Day Nursery. Formerly the Brickground Hotel which opened with the railway in 1850. • 1850 opened • 1854 purchased by Piggott & Wells of Horne Lane Brewery, Bedford • 1896 Charles Wells bought Piggott & Wells • 1993 sold and renamed The Mallard after the record breaking steam locomotive • 2000 closed This is now Acre Wood children’s nursery. The Brickground with the Now we take a short walk to Hospital Road and go to the other end to the Junction of Hitchin Road and High Street. A large corner property was opened as an Off Licence. The precise location is uncertain. • 1864 opened by Phoebe King of Arlesey with William King as licensee • 1894 owned by John Holden the Henlow brewer • 1899 Frederick Albone also a general dealer was the last licensee until it closed • 1900 purchased by Wells & Winch Ltd • 1935 closed Since then it is presumed to have been transformed into many different businesses and probably this is the present Londis grocery shop and post office. On the opposite corner in Hospital Road we see a small shop which at one stage was The Cock in Hitchin Road. • 1863 opened – owner unknown but first leased by Benjamin Christie of Westbury Brewery Ashwell • Early 1900’s Frederick Hyde also a butcher was the first licensee • 1921 J R Page & Co bought the business and sold it to Wells & Winch Ltd. Walter Albone was the