Wrecclesham, Village 1907
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As the Alice Holt Forest receded, this area was planted with hop-bines; Wrecclesham helped to supply the breweries and ale-houses of Farnham with their raw materials, while its inhabitants maintained a rather dubious reputation as 'outlaws' as a result of their disregard for the law. Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street, and another in a side street, as well as several establishments with grocer's licences. However, this quiet summer scene displays no sign of any licentious behaviour, unless the adult villagers are all indoors sleeping off their hangovers.
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