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English: Roundhouse A former toll cottage alongside the A442 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster road. In the background is The White Lodge Residential Care Home. The Home's website at http://www.oldfieldcare.co.uk/homes_white_lodge_residential_care_home.aspx suggests that it was built in 1910 but an article from the Black Country Bugle at http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/blackcountrybugle-news/displayarticle.asp?id=74621 suggests a later date of 1937, which seems more likely. According to the article it was built as a pub, the Nautical William, to a design of the architects Webb & Gray of Dudley, modelled on the bridge of the Queen Mary which had been launched a few years earlier in 1934. It is suggested that the pub was due to be called the Queen Mary, but plans were changed when George V died, as it seemed inappropriate to do so when she was in mourning. It was instead given an alternative maritime name. It closed as a pub in 1989, after a few name changes, and was converted to a Nursing Home. For a much fuller account, see the Black Country Bugle article.