Courtyard of the Saracen's Head inn, Southwell, Nottinghamshire mb-code IX002329 'The old gods vanquished'

'The old gods vanquished'

Scene of the reception of Princess Alexandra of Denmark at the triumphal arch

World Welterweight champion John H

about 1841

Courtyard of the Saracen's Head inn, Southwell, Nottinghamshire mb-code IX002329 'The old gods vanquished'Courtyard of the Saracen's Head inn, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, 1924 1926. The Saracen's Head was a coaching inn where Charles I is said to have spent his last night as a free man before surrendering himself to the Scottish Presbyterian army in May 1646. In those days the inn was known as the King's Head. The building dates from the 1460s. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume III, 1924 1926.