Last call at Taddiport

On Tuesday night ‘Time, gentlemen, please,’ the call that has rung through the Buckingham Arms at Taddiport for considerably more than 100 years, was heard for the last time.

Owners of the inn, Whitbreads, have sold it and the licence is to be surrendered. But the purchaser is no stranger. He is Mr Jim Horrell, landlord of the Buckingham Arms for the past 12 years. The pub will be the farmhouse for the smallholding on which it is situated.

Gazette article 21 June 1968