Princess Royal (Union Street)

Time was when each of the Three Towns – Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport – had their own ‘Princess Royal’. The Plymouth pub of that name stood, from the middle of the nineteenth century, through to the Blitz, in Notte Street, the Devonport establishment was in Cornwall Street. It opened around the same time and was closed in the 1920s to make way for new flats (which themselves have recently been demolished). The Stonehouse Princess Royal, meanwhile, was in Union Street – across from what was the Royal Sovereign. It had been a shop originally and was run by two sisters as a haberdashery in the 1850s. Converted to a pub soon after that, this Princess survived the war, but was earmarked for demolition along with most of the rest of Union Street, in the 1943 Plan for Plymouth. It did however survive for many years after that.

Licensees

1865 - Joseph Newsham
1873 - Mark Westaway
1880 - W Dunsford
1885 - GW Hearn
1880 - William Keyte
1890 - William Munn
1895 - John Wellington
1902 - JH Dodd
1914 - John Symons
1920 - George Northmore
1921 - Albert Teppett
1924 - Joe Walford
1926 - Emily Walford
1927 - Ernest Jones
1927 - Alexander Woods
1930 - Philip Codd
1930 - George Northmore
1933 - William Curtis
1934 - Leslie Polkinghorne
1936 - Cecil Darlington
1946 - Edwin Jackson
1950 - Clifford Casley
1953 - Edward Pearce
1953 - Walter Venning
1953 - John Morrison
1956 - Antoni Salas
1961 - Doreen Berry