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The Prince Regent was situated at 25 Gloucester Road and is now used as a cafe/bar/brasserie. This pub was originally known as The Harrington.

This was originally built as The Harrington Hotel and had rooms to let upstairs though that had definitely ceased by my time. I was born in 1965 and still live in the area, my father has been here since the 1950s and also doesn't remember the rooms. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, at least, there was an off license in the right hand side of the property, taking up the right hand window and door. When Waitrose shut down on the corner, the whole block was bought up for redevelopment with the exception of the Harrington pub itself which traded for several years in the middle of a hoarded up terrace then it stood empty for a long time with the rest of the block until redevelopment on the 1990s (only the front walls remained) when the Harrington, both pub and off license, reopened as the Rat and Parrot, predominantly rowdy student bar and then the Prince Regent, which it currently is - more a trendy gastro bar than anything else.

Tamara Cartwright-Loebl (June 2012)

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