Stony Stratford has a Non- League football team Stony Stratford Town F.C., who play at Ostler's Lane. Also, at the Ansell Trust Sports Ground, in Ostlers Lane, are also the Tennis, Bowling, Crocquet and Cricket Clubs.
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Settlement at Horsleys Green dates back to at least the seventeenth century, with some of these properties, such as Old Beckings and Horsleys Green Manor, still in use today. It was originally known as Ostlers Green, which suggests there may have been stables connected with the settlement (Ostlers being an archaic word for stablemen).Jones, "The Hamlets", p. 96. The Captains Pond, which was located at the north of the hamlet, continued to provide refreshment to the horses of travellers staying at the Harrow, a nearby public house.
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Originally, westward movement began in small groups, but well-funded travelers with a hundred or more wagons could employ professional wagon masters (or trail masters) and ostlers. Overland emigrants discovered smaller groups of twenty to forty wagons were more manageable than larger ones, especially without professional wagon masters. Many operated under democratic principles, creating bylaws and electing a captain. In reality, a captain had limited authority.
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This took the place of the original 5 Bells shop which shut in the early 1990s, and Ostlers Garage and Shop which closed in the late 1990s. Shirenewton also sported a small village Post Office that unfortunately shut down several years ago. The village also has a modern primary school called Shirenewton Primary that was built in 1985. This lies between Shirenewton and Mynydd-bach, and is situated in large open playing fields.
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Situated on the northern side of the flourmill, these buildings were originally used as a blacksmith that operated before the hotel was built in 1853. Evidence would suggest that the first documented Certificate of Title found is for Robert Eglinton, Reynella Blacksmith, dated 17 January 1867. These buildings included stables, livery and ostlers rooms and later a cottage. It was also natural for such businesses to be the place where travellers, going to and from Adelaide, changed horses.
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Stony Stratford Town play their home games at Ostlers Lane, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, MK11 1AR. Floodlights were added in 1996, and were officially switched on against Aston Villa's under 21 side in November of that year, in front of a capacity crowd. Some youth age groups play their home games at Old Stratford Community Centre, Deanshanger Road, Old Stratford, MK19 6NL. Winter training is held at The Radcliffe School, Stratford Road, Wolverton, making use of their all-weather pitches.
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The Black Boys was a stop for the post coach from Norwich to Cromer, had stabling for 40 horses, and employed three ostlers and four postboys. A thatched waterpump was built in 1911 at Carr's Corner in memory of John Soame by his uncle, a wealthy financier. An artesian well 170 feet (52 m) deep, its canopy is thatched in Norfolk reed. As with many of the other market towns in the county, the weaving of local cloth brought prosperity to the town in medieval times.
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A carriage entrance was created, probably in the 17th century, by removing the north-west ground floor of room 39 and raising the first floor. This was needed because the Chequer Inn was a coaching inn and posting house with stabling for about a dozen horses, and there would have been a busy traffic in and out of this entrance. A separate Ostlers Cottage and a horse stable block stand at the back of the Inn. The Inn's timber-framed street frontage was destroyed when the Inn was enlarged in 1799.
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Werrington Centre shops include Tesco, Age Concern and other small shops. These shops have undergone change since 2004 as a result of bigger companies buying out the locally owned shops. The video rental shop changed to a tanning salon but due to business failure has become a Domino's Pizza take-away, the hardware store 'Ostlers' has been replaced by a chemist. Other small stores are a family-run fish and chip shop (which sells Gluten Free fish and chips on the first Monday of each month), dry cleaners, hair salon and barber's and a betting shop.
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The pub was one of the largest in Bowness by 1890, by which time it was known locally as the "Hole in the Wall", or "Hole in t'Wall" in regional dialect. The origin of the name is not entirely certain; there may have been in a literal hole in the wall of the building to pass drinks to the neighbouring blacksmith and ostlers. The inn was the oldest licensed house in Bowness by 1907, and appealed to a working class clientele, particularly boatmen. A 1931 account describes the pub as a place where dominoes and darts could be played, and where mild beer was served.
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His boon companions were "ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks, and pugilists." In this company the handsome young artist swaggered, dressed in a green coat, with large yellow buttons, leather breeches, and top boots. "He was in the very extreme of foppish puppeyism", says Hassell; "his head, when ornamented according to his own taste, resembled a snowball, after the model of Tippey Bob, of dramatic memory, to which was attached a short, thick tail, not unlike a painter's brush." His youth and strong constitution enabled him to recover rapidly from his excesses, and he not only employed the intervals in painting, but at this time, or shortly afterwards, taught himself to play the violin.
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In his edition of 1993, Coldewey takes up a revisionist stance, believing that the play was processional in nature and clearly unconvinced by Wickham's argument. Victor I. Scherb, taking the processional staging as read, builds from it an interpretation that sees the play as a theatrical triptych that uses framing devices which serve to draw the audience's focus on the central scene, that of Saul's conversion. This station is framed spatially not only by the procession, but also in terms of "high" and "low", thanks to scenes involving God, devils and ostlers. Indeed, the ostler with ideas above his station being seen thrown in dung is taken as a reflection of Saul's own pride, for which he is cast down on the road to Damascus.
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