John Luff and John Woodford on Pubs and Hotels

John L:  Oh yeah, plenty of them. Plenty of pubs.

John W: Starting in the village, we had the ‘Village Inn’ and then we go down to the Harbour and we had three down there, we had the ‘Pilot Boat’, ‘Marine’ and the ‘Smugglers’. The next one we come to would be the Burdham Hotel, this is now the ‘Spinnaker’ Hotel and then we had one out the Forelands called the ‘Crab and Lobster’.

John L: The big one!

John W: Umm, you could go … take a jug round to the ‘Village Inn’ and they had a little window up the side there, you could have a jug of beer, and I think it was still about one penny a pint when we were children, wasn’t it?

John W: About a penny a pint or tuppence.

John L: Highbury, down here, Greg Poore’s

John L: Yeah there were quite a few pubs. There was more pubs then than there is now.

John W: Hotels, we had the ‘Spit Head’ Hotel, we had the ‘Elms’ Hotel, the ‘Highboro’ Hotel, ‘Bembridge House’ Hotel, and a lot of people did bed and breakfast and most of the big houses in Foreland Road were bed and breakfast.