 The Talbot was a half-timbered mediaeval inn and brewery.The were a number of owners or tenants
during the 19thC. Staff in 1981 included a wagonner and a 'clogger'. By 1990,it was owned by the Hall family who bought the Drawwell brewery
and merged the businesses.
Brewery advertisement by courtesy of The Brewery Society
It was demolished in the late 20thC.
By that time, the interior was suffering serious rot and the site was redeveloped as a supermarket, and a set of shops and flats. In 2012
these were:
- GetFresh- fish, vegetables etc., replaced in 2014 by Kasia and Kate Delicatessen, closed 2018.
- Meres and Mosses office- Housing association (closed 2014)
- Gift and card shop
- Pets shop, closed, 2019.
In the sketch below, the layout of the site can be seen. The hotel and brewery entrance is on the right, adjoining the existing wall of No 7. next to it is the offices of Hall, Wateridge and Owen, the auctioneers, who previosly held their Smithfield market at the Castle Hotel. On the other side of the path on the left is the White Lion hotel.
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