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The Green Dragon  was situated on the corner of the A456/A4117 junction. It was bought by Hereford & Worcester County Council prior to 1990 and demolished to improve sight-lines at the junction. The junction had a high fatality rate. The site is vacant and overgrown.

Source: Ian Vanes

After our Ilford house was bombed in 1941, my mother took my brother, aged 15 and myself, aged 12, to stay at The Green Dragon Inn at Far Forest, Worcestershire. We were there from Sept 1941 until September 1942. I remember it was a very popular pub ruled over by the vast formidable landlady, Mrs Harris, aided by her very small husband Eli. I am an author of 10 published books, mainly set in WW2, and it was memories of The Green Dragon, the village school and the friends I made there which inspired me to write my first book, A Year Out Of Time, a memoire of my year at the Green Dragon, which has since proved very popular in many schools on their annual VE Day reconstructions!

Eve Phillips (February 2020)

My parents lodged at the pub for a period of time whilst their new house was being built in Halesowen; it was, I think, 1956, as I would have been about 9 years old. During school time, I boarded at my prep school in Birmingham and went to the Green Dragon at weekends and school holidays. The pub was run by a distant relative of my father’s, Alf Nutt. Alf and his family were very good to me, nice people. I used to help him feed his geese beg the pub, he used to hold back the aggressive birds with a wooden chair!

Michael Parkes (November 2020)

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