Hidden Henley

10:30AM, Monday 04 January 2021

Hidden Henley

OPPOSITE Greenlands, or Henley Business School, on the Henley-Marlow road is Dairy Lane, a no through road.

Here there are several buildings marked with the initials of W H Smith, the founder of the newsagents and booksellers.

As you walk up the lane, don’t be startled by what appear to be hanging irons dangling from a tree

In reality it’s nothing more ghoulish than probably an old branch support, probably left by some tree surgeons.

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