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Date of photo: c1950	Picture source: Keith Richards
The Palk Arms was situated on Teignmouth Street.
This was once a Plymouth Breweries pub and it also had a bottling plant on site too.
Paul (March 2011)
Having been born just around the corner from The Palk Arms Public House on the Teignmouth Road, Torquay back in the 1930s , I remember that the publicans name was Griffiths and along side was a skittle-alley with an assembly/dance room above. During the second world war, with Hartop Road school having an influx of evacuees there were times when we had to walk down to the assembly room for lessons. I also remember going there for the occasional dance before I joined the navy and left Torquay. As you already are aware it was a Plymouth Brewery pub with the Plymouth Brewery bottling plant right next door. Underneath the pub there was a stable probably built originally for dray-horses but I seem to remember it being used for race-horses during the Easter weekend when racing took place on Torquay Golf Course. Now alas it has all gone.
Kenneth Dustan (July 2016)
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