The Royal Oak, Hail Weston a formal offer for the Royal Oak. The offer was not accepted. HWCPS made another, significantly higher, offer in 2015, but this was also rejected. After several years of negotiations, a group of villagers (and members of HWCPS) got together in 2016 to make a fresh bid to buy the Royal Oak, and on 31 January 2017 the sale finally went through. Renovation and restoration work began in the following weeks, with the assistance of roughly 50 volunteers. The Royal Oak reopened on Friday 19 May 2017. The Royal Oak, Hail Weston The Royal Oak is an 18th-century public house
Oak Lane Day School and diminishing enrollment which opened the door for Temple University to consider acquiring the school. Temple, on the lookout for opportunities to develop a laboratory-demonstration school, learned of Oak Lane’s situation and it was not long before a merger between the two became official in April 1931. Oak Lane’s new name, Oak Lane Country Day School of Temple University, confirmed this affiliation. Part of the agreement was the recognition of Oak Lane as an educational enterprise for the purpose of developing the best progressive method of education, and for use as an observation school to train teachers. Under John H.