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Date of photo: c1928	Picture source: Derek Sturch
The Trout Inn was situated on Chard Road. This pub closed in the 1960s, when the publican was Bernard Hiscox. It had an in-house skiffle group "Trout Anglers" who played most weekends and was the birth place of Millwey Rise FC in 1958.
As a kid I lived in Millway Rise and walked past the Trout Inn most days on my way back from school. I was too young to drink there but I remember so well looking in the usually open door, and seeing working men, about 4 or 5 of them usually, drinking cider. I still remember that wonderful translucent orange brew of the rough cider and wondering what it tasted like. It looked absolutely wonderful. I remember the publican’s son had a skiffle band, The Trout Anglers. I didn’t hear them play very often, just a couple of times. On a sadder note, I remember a tragic incident when a friend of my mums who lived opposite the pub, sent her young daughter over to the pub to get some change for the electric meter. She was aged about 4. A car came over the brow of the hill and killed her. It devastated people in the area. By the time I was old enough to drink in pubs I had moved to a different area. The Trout Inn lives on in my memory.
Tony Loftus (May 2019)
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Name	Dates	Comments
Jen Enticott	1959/1967	My mother, father and I used to stay here for a week every year for a while, as a break from life in Kent, and to visit my father's family. I used to love the decor in the bedrooms - the green room, blue room etc.
Sue Hayward	1950s	My Great Great Grandfather David Holt owned the Trout Inn until his death in 1896. In the 1950s his great grand daughter and family rented 2 Millwey cottages opposite the Trout. I can remember being in the garden with my cousin in the late 50s listening to the jukebox across the road in the Trout.