2-320-922 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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.