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COGGER/GOVEY - The Redesdale Pub c 1950.

This photo kindly supplied by Leigh Strawhorn of Barfold will gladen - or saden - the hearts of old Redesdale-ites. Redesdale was a 'Richmond pub' and the beer poured by Frank Took during the War, and then Harry May in the 50's, was nectar topped with cream. The original weatherboard pub was built in 1855 and rebuilt in bluestone in 1876. It's still there, and operating again after a long lay-off. But the Richmond beer has long gone. As in most small places the pub was the focal point of the Redesdale community, and the source of many a tale.

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