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Date of photo: 1900s	Picture source: Tony Wilson
The Old Thatched House was situated at 117-119 Essex Road. This pub closed in 2012. It was later known as The Embassy and is now used as a branch of Costa Coffee.
During the Second World War, on the evening of Saturday March 8th 1941, a German bomb penetrated the 'Thatched House' and exploded in the bar killing seventeen people [including three members of the Flood family - Alfred, Mary and Samuel] and six people were rescued alive. My father had just moved on from drinking in there and was in the nearby 'Old Queens Head' when the bomb exploded! My father said that, in order to preserve the pub's license, a makeshift bar was opened the next day.
Tony Wilson (December 2025)
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Date of photo: 1941	Picture source: Tony Wilson
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