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The Victoria Hotel was situated on Victoria Street. This pub has now been demolished. Trading from 1861. A popular pub with railway workers from Parkeston Quay who would have their pints ready for them on the bar as soon as the train departed from the quay.

my Nan and grandad use to run this pub and live there before and during WW2. My mother , before being evacuated from there to a farm in Herefordshire, use to go to school every day over the railway bridge. However on returning from school one day a German plane came in and machine gunned a goods train waiting in the station , narrowly missing my mum who was crossing the bridge at the same time . I remember her telling me this as a young girl myself , obviously something she never forgot

Lesley Thomson (April 2020)

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