Fox & Goose, Illston on the Hill

‘1’ on the door to the front room with a red and black quarry tiled floor, old panelled dado but the small bar counter is no older than 30 years says the women serving behind the bar as it replaced a smaller one across the short passageway from the public bar servery; also bar back shelving, she claims, is of no great age – it certainly doesn’t look that old. The main bar has another quarry tiled floor, a brick bar which is no older than the 1960s (possibly between 1965 and 1970 we were advised) and a brick fireplace that could date from the 1950s (or later). There is a small area to the rear and up to 30 odd years ago in the gap between the bar and the rear section there was a short partition projecting half way across to which a dartboard was affixed. Note the floor in the main bar which indicates the presence of a partition wall creating a passage – this was removed well before the 1960s, we were told; the door into the main bar was originally further back from the road.