Interviewee: The Pub was The Swan, run by Dixie Dean.
Interviewer: Not the footballer?
Interviewee: No, Scotsman. And that’s were everybody met. That was the social centre of Haslemere. When you went anywhere, you went to The Swan. Although Saturday mornings you used to go to The Old Forge, which is now Darnley’s, have coffee and from there you’d go to The Swan and have half a pint and then off and play football in the afternoon. I played for Shottermill Football Club. I did play for Haslemere’s Cricket Club as well, but I wasn’t very good. That’s ’cause I thought I was a batsman, in fact, as it turned out, I was a bowler, so that really was a bit of a mistake. People used to come from abroad, and they used to go to The Swan, without announcing, just to catch up with people because everybody who was anybody in those days went to The Swan, if you were young. Young Conservatives used it as a meeting place, we all went there and met, so that was it. And if you wanted to have a quiet moment and take your girlfriend somewhere you’d nip across to The White Horse, ’cause it was all tiny rooms with great big armchairs, and rather more stuffy, but you’d get a quiet corner.