Guy Road runs by the Wandle River…
turn left…few minutes to the Harvest Home then…would look about like this in your day then.
then out of Guy Road Right …up the hill and hey presto The Plough…tried to pick your era again… 
or was it more like this…
what no History?
@DianneWoollie , Bloody hell where do you get your photos from Dianne !!
The first photo looks right for the harvest home to me ?
The second one is definitely The Plough !!
And the third looks like The Harrow, also in Beddington lane, but earlier than
my time ??
Thanks for the pictures !!
Donkeyman! 
There are Caves and an Underground Tunnel next to The Plough Beddington…
They go on for miles I do believe…will check that later…
@DianneWoollie , We looked for those caves a couple of times Dianne, but
never found them?
Donkeyman! 
Anyone remember the Firkin pubs back in the 80s? There was a dozen of them in London, brewing their own. I remember The Fox & Firkin and The Ferret & Firkin. And I don’t know how many outside London, but there was The Fleece & Firkin in Bristol.
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They are across the small road at the side of the Plough Pub…you will see a huge hill/mound to the side and behind the greenage is a boarded up tunnel…although in the enclosed link it shows a half circle gated entrance…
There’s a pub in Shepherds Bush called The Defectors Weld. The name’s a bit of a mystery, some say there were cold war spies locally, some say it has BBC connections 
https://www.pubwiki.co.uk/LondonPubs/Hammersmith/BeaumontArms.
So it had only been Defectors Weld for a short time it was originally Beaumont Arms, it is quite interesting reading about the various landlords and land ladies that occupied it over time…shows that on the link…
This link is about History of Hammersmith Pubs…
Public Houses, Inns & Taverns of Hammersmith, London
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There is an Ancient very well loved Pub, in Scotland’s Linlithgow…plenty of information on it… 
It also has a Palace
Linlithgow Palace - Wikipedia
It is Linlithgow’s Oldest Public House also one of Scotlands oldest…
There are other establishments bought about by the great interest in the History of this Public House the Black Bitch.
quote from a local…
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! Here I was, plainly a naive city lad, unaware of the history behind a pub and indeed a town, pretty much just a few miles down the road. On first sight, it may appear an offensive name for a boozer and somewhat controversial in this day and age you might say, but thankfully, this is one part of our culture that the right-on politically correct brigade HAVEN’T managed to interfere with.
The town’s coat of arms has a black bitch dog against an oak tree, which represents a story not unlike Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Bobby.
More to Pub Names than meets the eye…
Canards Grave now Cannards Well
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Dirty Dick’s. Sadly they have tarted it up now, but it used to have, pipes everywhere, spider webs & lots of dust at ceiling height. I went there in the early 60’s.
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That was a really good read Tiffany. thanks…
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The Swan With Two Nicks (aka The Swan) in Worcester was a fairly frequent watering hole for us when we lived there.
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Any pub, shoppe, building, or object beginning with Ye is a misinterpretation of the Old English letter Thorn, pronounced Th, and hand writ as 
When printing was invented, type set was imported from foreign abroad where there was no letter thorn, so printers approximated it by using the letter y instead.
There is a pub in York pub called The Three Legged Mare, otherwise known as the Wonky Donkey. The “Mare” is actually referring to a type of gallows, and an image of it appears on the pub sign.
I once visited a pub in Swindon called The Temporary Sign.
As a kid I remember my dad driving past a pub near Sheffield a few times called, The Dying Gladiator.
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