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Title: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: Mark A on August 23, 2023, 18:50:15 Bit late to this, sorry to say the Hope and Anchor closed its doors on August 6th.
Mark Title: Re: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: Rob on the hill on August 23, 2023, 20:25:42 From the Hope and Anchor website:
Quote We will be closing our doors on Sunday 6th August 2023 until further notice. There is an exciting announcement coming in the near future. Any questions please do email us at hopemidford@gmail.com. Thank you all for supporting us over the years! https://www.hopeandanchormidford.co.uk/ Title: Re: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: bobm on August 24, 2023, 08:30:48 I remember having a good lunch there with JayMac when we were looking at locations used in the Titfield Thunderbolt.
The meal was notable not just for the food but an alert JayMac received on his phone part way through. Someone had taken an unauthorised payment from his bank and wiped out his debit card. I seem to recall after a bit of to and fro he got it all back. Title: Re: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: JayMac on August 24, 2023, 19:45:55 Yep, I remember that day out too (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=24007.0). Don't remember what I had for lunch though!
(https://i.ibb.co/Wp3Yb5D/15998468024193.jpg) EDIT: I do now remember what was had for lunch. As I posted the details in the linked thread. This forum is a great aide mémoire! Title: Re: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: Mark A on August 27, 2023, 16:18:14 Good news on the Hope and Anchor - a lucky pub - it reopened on Friday under new ownership. It'll soon be doing food again, but until the end of the month the kitchen's still powering up - when I dropped by on Friday a lot of food prep. being done. Hopefully the continued presence of the Hope and Anchor will help catalyse traffic calming and a 20 zone on the road outside, something that will go down well with the rest of the village.
Photo below from September 2015, when the structure's height restriction signage was renewed/updated, and when an increasingly large chunk out of the road arch at Midford was last repaired. This work brought large amounts of peace and quiet for a week or so. It must be also be very lucky that the viaduct didn't lose at least the road arch when the line closed as this just about needs doing again. Mark (https://i.postimg.cc/6qrN8KfB/midford-viaduct-repair-road-closed-1000-med.jpg) Title: Re: Hope and Anchor, Midford Post by: bobm on August 28, 2023, 18:26:44 By chance today I discovered there are several articles on the filming of the Titfield Thunderbolt and the locomotives involved in the September issue of Steam World magazine.
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