1984: The pub that time forgot

Breakfast Time's Paul Burden was transported back in time when he went to a pub in Ross on Wye known locally as The Hole in the Wall. When the landlord died in 1942 his wife left the pub completely unchanged for the next 40 years. With the pub still fully stocked with maturing alcohol, Burden was keen to find out if there was gold in those bottles…

Clip taken from Breakfast Time, originally broadcast on BBC One, 22 March 1984.

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