Complex sentence: The former public house, The Oakdale that greets you as you enter Bakersfield stands on the original site of a large farm barn over the years it has been the centre of the local community and in the Second World War was a bomb shelter.
Split into simpler sentences: The former public house, "The Oakdale", that greets you as you enter Bakersfield, stands on the original site of a large farm barn. Over the years it has been the centre of the local community and in the Second World War was a bomb shelter.