Pubs were once social centres and many of them hosted sports teams, coach trips and charity fund raising events, writes Robert Heaven.
Sadly these are long gone, but the memories live on for many folk.
Pictures - Hope Inn regulars 1950's and White Lion Fun run 1984
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