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Date of photo: 1984	Picture source: Lee
The Castle was situated on Union Street. This pub was opened as The Castle Wine & Spirit Vaults & Bowling Alley in 1864. It is now in retail use.
A Plymouth publican, John Camp, landlord of The Castle Inn, Union Street, was charged before the magistrates yesterday with allowing his house to be the habitual resort of prostitutes. The case was proved by Sergeant H. Hill who stated that on Monday evening he visited the house, and in a room known as the concert room he found twenty four men and ten prostitutes. An hour later there were twenty two men mostly the same as on the previous occasion, and ten prostitutes, six of them among those there at the first visit. - Mr Briar, who appeared for the defendant, admitted the offence. - The Bench said they were determined to put down such houses and fined the defendant £3 and costs, and ordered the licence to be endorsed. Western Morning News, 24 December 1880
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Name Dates Comments Jack Johnson 1965/1966 Customer. Publican and wife allowed me to sleep in bar to wait for phone call, as my wife was having a baby in Hertfordshire , got the good news on pub phone
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Picture source: Clive Schneidau