epw017401 ENGLAND (1927). Countryside between Well Green and Timperley, Hale, 1927

This is certainly Well Green house, according to the maps I've used. But is it the Well green pub? I thought - before it was closed down - that it stood nearer Grove Lane than this house does.

I must admit looking at the distance to Grove lane does seem a little further than I remember, however the wooded area to the rear and left of the building do seem to be located exactly as I remember them, having grew up just behind the pub, and the building itself appears to have the same features as the pub. Perhaps the 1927 photo is deceiving with regards to having no shops, car park or outdoor off license to relate it to.

Also as I remember their was an extension to the front of the building roughly in 1981 to accommodate diners when it re-opened as a beefeater. This would have given it closer proximity to Grove lane than the original building, which did still have the rounded architectural framework on the upper floors, these were original so surely it could not have been rebuilt after 1927 ?

If you lived close by, your assessment's likely to be more solidly founded than mine. I lived the further side of Timperley, and wandered thereabouts mainly as a teenager in the late '50s and early '60s when the area was just being built up. I can't recall for sure, but think the shops and the pub came a bit later, after the houses had been there for a little while. As you say, the shops certainly affect the perspective, and I too recall that on the one time I used it there was a sort of conservatory-like bit attached to the pub.

This is definitely what became the Well Green public house. At this point in time I believe it was still the Boutflower family home. I believe an extension was built in the early sixties and an American themed bar opened. This might have been the flat roof bit to the left of the building. As another poster has mentioned, Whitbread extensively overhauled the interior into a Beefeater in the early 1980's and it became their regional head office. This lasted till about 1998 when a management buyout saw the Well Green transferred to the Crowded House Pub Company along with several other Beefeaters. I worked on the bar shortly after the transfer. The inside of the building was quite a feature with the stream and the windmill. Sadly the new company was shortlived and they went into administration. The pub and restauants last day of trading was Thursday 16th March 2000 and we were all dismissed by the administrators on Friday lunchtime. Several weeks afterwards there was a fire and the building demolished not long afterwards. A company called Linden Homes had bought the land and built the flats currently on the site.

Not a million miles away from the present Woburn drive

Indeed - looks to have been roughly where Buckfast Close is.