Liddicoat Road
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Now converted into apartments, the building called the Royal Talbot was built in 1939 on the site of the former stable block of the demolished Royal Talbot Hotel. The site was purchased by a syndicate who built the new hotel as a classic 1930s roadhouse to serve holidaymakers on their way to the western resorts and to continue to provide facilities for local events and celebrations. Its first landlords included one known locally as the Galloping Major because of his similarity to a character in the 1951 film of that name.
In the 1960s, Mr and Mrs Thackery built a large car park on the site of the demolished Wesleyan Methodist church. The Royal Talbot again changed hands in the 1980s. Tourist visitors had declined in numbers by the 1980s and the business was more oriented to local customers. During this time, a number of tenants carried out improvements to the bar layout. The tenants included Bernard and Barbara Gaffney in 1995 and Steve and Pam Fisher in 2000. The final tenant was Nick Blatchford. Difficulties in adapting a large road house to the changing eating and drinking habits of a local clientele led to the closure of the pub in 2013 and its conversion into apartments.
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