Bus Shelter - a history

Compiled by Mickleton Women’s Institute in 1970s:

At the junction of High Street and Chapel Lane, against wall of Three Ways Hotel.

Camera facing N.

Built November 1950 – January 1951.  Stone walls.  Hipped roof, Cotswold stone under stone ridge.  Open front under oak lintel.  Inside is a wooden seat round three sides.

Architect: Pemberton and Bateman, Chipping Campden.

Builder: Geo Brotheridge and Co Ltd, Chipping Campden.

Given to the village by Mr Joseph Webb in memory of his father.  A well designed, well built shelter.  Originally proposed site on Three Ways triangle refused by the police and the surveyor as it would ‘obscure the view’.  Unobtrusively sited against stone wall.