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Raynes Park Hotel Aerial View Of Ground
The previous week we featured the drinking institution The Raynes Look familiar? Well, maybe it doesn't but it should do! If you're very
Park Tavern in the 1970's when, it's safe to say, the pub had 'character'! sharp-eyed (or almost as old as the RPV Chairman!) you might recog-
Here The Raynes Park Hotel, as it was then, in 1904, is in all its glory as nise this view as the very place that you are or were today. Across the
a fully functioning public house and commercial hotel. top of this picture is Grand Drive - the road that gives its name to the
home of South London's finest team - and to the right it is bordered by
As you can see Coombe Lane has changed quite a bit in the intervening Bushey Road which puts The RPV ground over on the left of this view
century - not least of which are the magnificent trees to the south of the tucked in the corner of the land that is Prince George's Playing Fields.
road - but much of the commercial architecture still exists today.
The Raynes Park Hotel, as it was then, in 1904,
