Watching the golf, I noticed that prestigious courses are now being referred to by commentators as 'a storied venue.' I assumed it was a creeping Americanism but if it is, it went over on the Mayflower as the first OED reference is from 1646 #golf
The Thatched Barn Roadhouse on the Barnet Bypass (A1) in the 1930s. Not only the biggest British inter-war roadhouse but surely the largest mock-Tudor structure ever built. #interwar#motoring
The Showboat Roadhouse in Maidenhead, c.1932 and in 2012
Its owners invested in an enormous swimming pool, restaurant and billiards room, but they over-estimated how many wealthy patrons they could attract and it went bust a few years later #moderne#deco#1930s