This modern view taken on 1st July 2000, with a prominent advertisement for big screen football, shows the importance satellite TV sport has in maintaining the viability of local pubs.

Opening around 1870 as the "Hit or Miss", perhaps a reference to Shooting Common, the old name for this area. It shortly after-wards became the Chat-terton Arms, named after the poet,Thomas Chat-terton, as were all the roads on this development.

Chatterton Road soon settled down as a local shopping centre which it remains to this day.