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Closing of ‘Setting Sun’

13.2.1959 Torrington Setting Sun

An inn which has stood at Torrington for many years closed down on Sunday night.

It was the ‘Setting Sun’ belonging to the brewery firm of Starkey, Knight and Ford Ltd. The licensee and his wife, Mr and Mrs A Clarke, have become well known in Torrington during the two years in which they have occupied the premises.

Now they are moving to the Globe Hotel, at Barnstaple. They came to Torrington from Mortehoe.

Mrs Clarke told a Gazette reported on Saturday: “The structural conditions, especially in the upstairs rooms, which are very old, have got into a bad state over the years. So the brewers have decided to shut it down.”

Mr Clarke said he thought the inn was extremely old. “I think that, next to the Black Horse Inn in the Square, this place is one of the oldest in the town,” he added.

Article dated 13 February 1959

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