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The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
Hand & Flower, 1250 High Road, WhetstoneThe gentleman in the picture is Robert Gilmour, the owner (Photo John Heathfield Collection)
Picture added on 12 November 2009 at 16:44
You sent me this picture some years ago - I lived at the Hand and Flower from approx 1948 until 1955. My grandfather John Thomas Showler was licencee then. After he died in 1953 my grandmother (Lily Louise Showler) and my father (Victor James Benton) were licencees until we moved
Added by Lynette Benton on 12 May 2021