From at least the mid 19th century, until the 1970s, the neighbouring building was The Acorn public house, now the name of this Wetherspoon pub. Although only a small city, Lichfield has a remarkable reputation as the birthplace or home town of famous men and women, particularly in the literary field, where one name towers above all others.
Text about The Acorn Inn
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The text reads: This Wetherspoon freehouse is part of a development built on the site of number 12-18 Tamworth Street. In the 1870s number 12 was a grocers. At one time number 16 housed a cycle-maker and a garage, whilst number 18 was in use as a bakers and a greengrocers. Number 18 (later 20) was The Acorn, which has given its name to these premises.
A painting of Erasmus Darwin, and a copy of The Temple of Nature.
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The text reads: Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born & nursd in oceans pearly caves:
First form minute, unseen by spheric glass
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These as successive generations bloom.
New powers acquire & larger limbs assume:
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring. And breathing realms of fin & feet & wing.
External photograph of the building – main entrance.
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