Morning Star

The pub closed in the early 1920s and its site is now long since been buries beneath the road surface of the present day and much wider stretch of Union Street between Derry's Cross and Western Approach.

It stood in front of where there is currently a gap between the old Drake Cinema block and that section now dominated by the Union Rooms.

Our picture here shows it in 1947, when a goldsmith's business was occupying the premises. Later, Frederick Danckwardt had a dental practice here. The whole block came down in the late fifties.

The name Morning Star was undoubtedly a reference to the steam locomotive of that name, designed by Stephenson for the Great Western Railway which crossed Union Street just yards from the pub, which itself was located on the Union Street junction with Station Road.