“The land came into our family a hundred years ago,” explains the owner 57 year old Tony Carter. “It was owned by my great-grandmother Fanny Wilshaw. The building you mention was a pub called the White Horse. I don’t remember it being a pub; it was always used as a house and office. My great-grandmother was a scrap metal dealer. She’d sit in the yard with a bag of coins weighing and buying metal. Then my grandmother took over. Her name was Frances but everybody knew her as Girlie. She married into the Carter family and my dad George ran the business until he retired. Now I run it with my son Simon.”

Around the corner Blackwell’s Row once neighboured with Churchill Pottery. And that’s gone as well.

“It’s all change around here these days,” says Tony. “Come back in five years and it might be different again. Who knows?”