It looks as though my photo has been mislabelled twice. In the album, my mother had written that it was "Jack's Pub". Jack was the grand mother in the photo's brother, and was certainly a publican, but I could only find him in Maidenhead from 1920 and later in Bedford, where he died in 1939, still a publican.
However, on the reverse of the photo is written "The Hop Pole, Nettlestead" to which it shows quite a passing resembelence. The old photo of Hale Street still looks like the junction opposite the Hop Pole, but there is a substantial house behind it which is not in evidence at Nettlestead Green, but is still there on modern Street View of Hale Street.
I had looked carefully through Google to check the location but could find no other old pictures of the Hop Pole. Start looking now, and there it is on the same pub site that yielded the Hale Street photo, and it is clearly not the one in my photo.
I should really know better, as I always tell people who are interested in their family history to disbelieve everything that they were told, and I guess that goes for things that are written down as well!
So thank you to KeithG for finding the real location, and over to you.
