Fountain Inn

Its address was 38 Frankfort Street and it stood directly opposite the Western Evening Herald/Morning News Building, the facade of which is still there today.

If you want to get an idea of where the Fountain Inn was, stand just outside the entrance to Waterstone's bookshop and look across the road, although the front of the pub would have been slightly forward of the present street line.

Time was when there were a number of Fountain Inns in the Three Towns, and the name was doubtless popular here on account of its association with the badge of the Master Mariners. There was a Fountain in Castle Street and Vauxhall Street on the Barbican, one at Millbay and one in Devonport, in addition to the one here in Frankfort Street, which was bombed during the last war.

Now there are none, although it is interesting to note that the licence from here was subsequently transferred to the Tiger at Whitleigh.