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Pub throws Victorian party to celebrate road closure
07/10/17
CUSTOMERS of a pub in Playhatch stepped back in time by dressing up for a Victorian street party on Saturday night. Husband and wife Nick Willson and Hazel Lucas, who own the Flowing Spring, decided to make the most of the closure of the A4155 ...
Pub celebrates re-opening of road with motoring party
23/11/17
THE landlords of a pub in Playhatch threw a party to celebrate the end of a 10-week road closure. Nick Willson and Hazel Lucas, who run the Flowing Spring, held the “Life on the open road” party on Saturday after the A4155 Henley Road, which ...
Good pub for summer
10/08/17
A PUB has scooped its first award as a free house. The Flowing Spring at Playhatch was named the summer pub of the season by the South Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. It comes less than two months after landlords Nick ...
Church's 21st snowdrop festival gets off a... snowy start
14/02/17
SNOW fell at the start of the 21st annual snowdrop teas to be held at St Botolph’s Church in Swyncombe. Dozens of people visited the Norman church on Saturday and Sunday to see the carpet of white flowers in the graveyard and then ...
Road closure will cost me trade says landlord
22/06/17
A PUB landlord says his trade will be badly hit by the two-month closure of the main road between Henley and Reading. Nick Willson, who runs the Flowing Spring in Playhatch with his wife Hazel Lucas, fears shutting the A4155 will ...
Never mind the flooding, say couple who buy pub freehold
18/07/17
A COUPLE who bought a pub, transforming it into a free house for the first time in its 220-year history, say they wanted to ensure it stayed a traditional venue. Nick Willson and his wife Hazel Lucas bought the freehold of the ...
Volunteers tidy up church's overgrown millennium garden
20/04/17
VOLUNTEERS tidied up an overgrown patch of land at Holy Trinity Church in Henley. Members of Henley in Bloom’s Gardening Buddies cleared grasses and wood avens, a type of invasive wildflower, from the millennium garden in the ...
A feast of film at Henley's Regal Picturehouse
18/09/12
Henley Standard film columnist Iain Boulton, of the town's Regal Picturehouse cinema, introduces the coming month's releases.
Village goes quackers for duck race
17/04/14
Middle Assendon villagers held a rubber duck race when the Assendon spring flowed for the first time in over 10 years.
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