Postcard dated 1913. The New Inn is on the right behind the pony and trap. The name of the landlord is E.H. Birt. The Cross Keys Inn is opposite, the pub sign being to the left of the group of three men. The building behind the New Inn was a former Police Station. The same year a book,
The Maypole was the original centre of the village of Bream, although by 1913 businesses, houses, chapels and the schools were sited on the other side of the hill, extending the village nearer to the Princess Royal colliery which provided employment for many of the men in the village

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