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Picture source: John Hopperton

The Victory was situated at 63 Clarence Street. This pub closed in 1966.

MY grandfather's uncle Roy Bond and aunty Gertrude Bond lived there as the Publicans. He cannot recall when they had the pub from or until. He remembers going to the pub around 1940 (during the war) as his Father was a one parent family and so couldn’t support the children and work at the same time. His sister was due to be adopted by his Uncle and Aunty but she cried so much that his Father couldn’t leave her and so he took them back. He remembers that that the interior had a big high mantle piece and green walls. Opposite the pub was a green grocers down the narrow cobbled street. At the top of the windmill hill he would go and watch the boats. His cousin was a local regular in the pub and worked as a Tugman.

Georgia Chapple (September 2018)

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