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The Atlas was situated on Lees Road. This Robinsons pub has now been demolished.

Source: Charlie Powell

My family lived practically next door to the Atlas from 1958 to 1960 our address was 27 Lees Rd. I would have been around 14 years old at the time my mom and dad ran the newsagents shop at 27 Lees road just before we emigrated to Canada in April 1960. My younger brother and I delivered newspapers after school in that area a lot of the property had already been demolished and we played soccer on the empty lot between the pub and the shop one of my fondest memories was ogling a Lagonda open roadster whose owner frequented the pub during that time. It would certainly be interesting if the ownership could be traced and where it is today? I have such fond memories of that area during that time. I took ballroom dancing lessons at Billingtons which was just a couple of streets away we went hiking every weekend up through Greenfield and Chew valley in fact we even made the headlines in the local paper one weekend when a friend l was hiking with broke his leg and they had to call out the rescue squad!

Russell Parfitt (October 2022)

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