Fake 47

At the time we arrived in Epsom in the late 1980's there were a number of drinking clubs, of one of which I was a  member for a while, earning me a CIU card which I made occasional use of in my travels about the land on government business - for example to the club at Neath, near DVLC, once an important hub of the Welsh coal industry. A rather sleepy place in the middle of the afternoon, just a few pensioners, rather surprised to see me, all suited and booted.

Another one was the Comrades Club, originally for ex-servicemen, but by then mainly serving professionals and semi-professionals working in town who liked to take drink in the afternoon. But the large premises were too much for that declining business and eventually, amid some acrimony, they sold out to a hotel chain.

Now

A hotel chain which has seen fit to decorate their façade with pilasters, after the fashion of the fake nineteenth century buildings to be found at Poundbury (vide supra). We wait to see how they finish off their bases. Will they leave them hanging in the air?

Then

Google has not yet sent round their camera car, so I was able to recover the club as it was from Street View. A large detached house, festooned with single storey sheds, probably all in rather delapidated condition inside. Town Hall - brown brick with chimneys - visible right in both snaps.

PS: vide supra not terribly appropriate here where it is intended to mean see an earlier post. Literally see above, which is fine in a book where what one has just read is indeed above. But not so fine in a blog which is organised the other way around, with later posts above and earlier posts below.