Pictured is a London & North Western Railway Milnes-Daimler ‘omnibus’ waiting at the Red Lion Hotel at Northop. The LNWR commenced services between Flint, Holywell and Mold in July 1905, using two 34-seater buses.
Notice too the cottages on the end of the Red Lion which were pulled down in the 1970’s… sad to say I remember them!!
The Red Lion in Northop is a very ancient and historic public house. At the turn of the 19th century it was one of six public houses in the village – The Swan, The Boot (still there), The Feathers, The Yacht and The Bull, part of which can still be seen internally at The Old Police Station which was built against the remains of The Bull. Some rooms in the house are still the rooms of the old pub.
The ‘mail coach’ stopped at the Red Lion two hundred years ago and so The Red Lion at this time served as the official village Post Office and was also the place where the Petty Sessions met once a month. Therefore, anyone sentenced for a crime in Northop at this time would have to appear ‘at the pub’ to be dealt with.
In the image of 1905 the post office and village ‘paper shop’ was opposite the Red Lion and is now where the Antique Shop is.
And isn't Northop a busy place with people out in the street in 1905...no chance now , you'd get run over! Oh for a car free few days of the week!
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The Blenheim Boys
‘The devotion and gallantry… are beyond all praise. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava is eclipsed in brightness by these almost daily deeds of fame.’
Winston Churchill on the Blenheim Crews - Prime Minister’s Personal Minute, M.852/1, 30 August 1941
