Location: Buckfastleigh, Devon.
Photographer: Robert Hesketh
Keywords: Tourist Historic Buildings/Sites Interior Public houses
File Size: 35MB
Public bar in the Valiant Soldier Inn known as Òthe pub where time was never calledÓ preserved as it was in the 1960s it dates from at least 1747 and was trading as an alehouse in 1777 closed in 1965 its reclusive owners left it completely unchanged hoarding the everyday objects of their lives bought by the council it was meticulously restored and offers a wonderful and rare insight into recent social history an unpretentious working class pub neither themed nor modernized it shows how much daily life has changed well within living memory the public bar offered beer from the barrel and was largely a male preserve the snug was for women or courting couples Valiant Soldier Public House Fore Street Buckfastleigh South Devon South West England UK inside; interior; hostelry; drinking; eating; history; heritage; historic building; historical; listed building; English Heritage; bar; barrels; glasses; bottles; jugs; ashtrays; cigarette packs; stools; benches; tables; food; pasties; pies; dart board; dartboard; darts; entertainment; social life; pictures; postcards; museum; tourism; tourist attraction; holiday; vacation; travel; horizontal; landscape; Westcountry; West Country; SW England; English; British; Britain; Great Britain; GB; United Kingdom