Magistrates’ hint to rural council

Need for the local authority to provide lavatory accommodation at the bottom of Clovelly village for the convenience of the hundreds of visitors who flocked down there in the summer was emphasises by the chairman of Bideford County Bench, Lieut-Col J C Bassett, on Tuesday.

Mr M W V Richards was making application to the court for the transfer of the licence of the Red Lion Hotel, Clovelly, from Mr Sidney Henry Gulliver to Mr Reginald Clarence Fry.

The lavatory accommodation at the hotel was quite adequate for the purposes of the licence, said the Chairman, but the point was that in the summer hundreds of visitors made use of that accommodation. If the local authority could take some action it would not only help the hotel but would be of considerable advantage to visitors.

The Magistrates approved the transfer.

Gazette article dated 20 October 1950