Harvest Home

This well-remembered and well-loved corner pub at the junction of Tavistock Road and Pound Street was pulled down on Sunday 29th November 1964. Its site today is somewhere around the top of the circular pedestrian centre in the middle of the Drake’s Circus roundabout. It was built as a coaching house in the first half of the nineteenth century when this stretch of ‘Old Town without’ became Tavistock Street (Tavistock Road from the late 1860s). Pound Street, incidentally (at the end of Cobourg Street) was so named because of the old animal pound there.

The distinctive archway to the stable yard and the old ostler’s bell were ever features of this prominently placed public house. Chubb, Pearse and Hamley were among the early long-serving landlords here in the pre-motor car days.

For many years an Octagon Brewery pub, it became a Simonds house shortly before it closed.