Green Lantern restaurant
Green Lantern restaurant
Kingston
The Green Lantern was a short-lived restaurant in Kingston during the latter part of the 1940s in what had been a private house, seen in the photograph below.
All references to the restaurant, which could accommodate up to 150 persons, date to between 1947 and 1950. It was reported several times as the venue for the annual dinners of various Yeovil societies and organisations. Note its telephone number - Yeovil 74.
The restaurant
was owned and
run by
Egglestone John
Bunce, born in
Yeovil in 1914. Bunce left
Yeovil in the
very early 1950s
at which time it
is thought that
the Green
Lantern in
Kingston closed.
Bunce opened
another Green
Lantern
Restaurant in
Portland,
Dorset, but was
made bankrupt in
1955. He died in
Yeovil in the
autumn of 1974.
gallery
In this colourised photograph of the mid-1960s, at left is the entrance gateway in the garden wall of the Unitarian chapel and next door the three-storey building was, for a short time during the 1940s and early 1950s, the Green Lantern Restaurant. Photographed in the mid-1960s.
This
photograph
features in my
book "Lost Yeovil"
A colourised postcard of the interior of the Green Lantern Restaurant, dating to the late 1940s.
The Green Lantern photographed arounf 1950.
From the 27 April 1949 edition of the Western Gazette. I like the last part - ".... no question of black marketeering" (as if).
From my
collection
Bunce's advertisement for the Green Lantern Restaurant in the 1950 Yeovil Guide. Not just good meals, but really good meals.
An advertisement from the Western Gazette's edition of 22 December 1950. The last reference to the restaurant.
Courtesy of
Yvonne Gordon
A table spoon, stamped with the legend "Green Lantern, Yeovil".
Courtesy of
Yvonne Gordon
.... and an enlargement of the legend.
