8-10 North Street
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These houses are built on the site of a pub known as the Black Dog. Please respect the privacy of the owners.
A local man named Talbot had opened a pub at the lower end of North Street, then called Bridge Street, in the early 18th century. He ran the pub under the sign of the Black Dog, a play on his own surname, to allude to the Talbot hunting dogs used by the Earls and Dukes of Cornwall in the Castle Deer Park. The pub was often referred to as Talbot’s or simply as the Dog. After a new inn opened in Fore Street in 1785, under the sign of the Spotted Dog, the older pub came to be referred to as the Old Dog until its closure in the nineteenth century. The building was used as a boarding house for some years but was eventually demolished and the present houses were built on its site.
Example of a Black Dog pub sign
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