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The Bird In Hand was situated on the High Street.

Source: Tony Mitchell

On 1st May, if passing down the High Street, you will hear the thumping of a big drum, the squeaking of a couple of fiddles, and the clattering of shovels and scrapers. The group consists of Bagley’s sweeps and chimney climbing boys, all washed clean, and decorated in fancy costume, ribbons etc. – two or three of them dressed as girls with painted and powdered faces and arms, dancing round ‘Jack in the Green’, a moving pyramid of laurel and other green stuff. Old Tom Heron of the Bird In Hand at the bottom of Chequer’s yard being the drummer. The fiddlers are various.

Peregrinations of a Kiddy, 1873

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