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Picture source: Bob Pearce

The Royal Sovereign was situated on Millbank Street, Northam.

Source: Eddie Broomfield

Built as a private residence c1810, it did not become a pub until 1866. In the early 19th century it was owned by Betty Craven, the Margravine of Anspach, although she never lived there.  The street sign Anspach Place on the outside wall of the pub is a reminder of the building's original owner. The Wheatsheaf brewery of Upper back of the Walls bought the building in 1866 and turned it into a pub in the early 1900s. Forder’s Hampshire brewery brought the pub, it was taken over again by Brickwood’s brewery in 1925, falling under the Whitbread Brewery umbrella when they acquired Brickwoods in 1971. It has had a chequered path since then opening and closing on a regular basis.

Bob Bates (November 2013)

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