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royal standard (1)
Paradise / 54 Wellington Street / 14 Huish / 69 Huish
The Royal Standard had a confusing number of address changes through the records of its existence, as seen above. Essentially it was on the corner of Wellington Street and Huish (which was renumbered during this period) but its main elevation and entrance faced Wellington Street.
Thomas Locock
was born about
1828 at Stoke
sub Hamdon,
about six miles
west of Yeovil,
the son of
glover James
Locock and his
wife, Elizabeth.
In the 1841
census Thomas
was living with
his parents and
four sisters in
Vicarage Street
and, at the age
of 13, was
working as a
glover. In
October 1848 he
married Martha
Pike Hinton at
Yeovil and in
the 1861 census
Thomas and
Martha were
living in
Vicarage Street
with their two
daughters, Emily
and Elizabeth.
Thomas gave his
occupation as
glove cutter. In
Kelly's
Directory of
1866 Thomas was
listed as a beer
retailer in a
London Road
beerhouse.
Unfortunately it
is the only
reference to the
beerhouse, so
its location
cannot be
located. Martha
died in the
summer of 1868
and Thomas
remarried the
following
spring. By 1871
Thomas, his new
wife Jane and
his two
daughters were
living at the
Royal Standard
where Thomas was
listed as glover
and publican.
Thomas remained
publican of the
Royal Standard
until his death
at the age of 67
at the beginning
of 1895.
Following his
death Jane took
over the license
of the Royal
Standard for a
year or two. She
died in 1899.
John Henry Norman was born around 1854 and in the 1881 census was found living with his Yeovil-born wife, Eliza, and their young daughter, Beatrice, at the Duke of Wellington. John was listed as an innkeeper and coal merchant. By the time of the 1891 census John, now apparently known as Joseph, was running the Blue Ball Inn in Middle Street with Eliza and Beatrice plus a new baby son, Daniel. John / Joseph died between 1895 and 1898 by which time his widow, Eliza, was licensee of the Blue Ball. By 1900, however, Eliza had moved to Wellington Street and had taken over the license of this, the first Royal Standard, after the death of Jane Locock, who had assumed the license briefly after the death of her husband, Thomas. Eliza was listed as innkeeper in the 1901 census, living with her three sons; Rowland, Joseph and Daniel. She was last listed as the licensee in Whitby's Yeovil Almanack Advertiser of 1903. In the 1911 census Eliza was living at 16 Summerhouse Road with Rowland and Daniel. She died in the winter of 1931.
After a couple of other brief tenancies, John Andrews was licensee from the beginning of the First World War in 1914 until his death in 1938. He too was superseded by his widow, Alice, for some ten years.
The final licensee was H Walker who took over the license around 1949 and stayed until the Royal Standard was demolished in 1959 to make way for the Wellington flats development. The Royal Standard name was transferred to a new Royal Standard in Larkhill Road and the last licensee of this Royal Standard, Mr H Walker, became the landlord there.
gallery
Courtesy of
Gregg Maunder
A crowd of regulars and their families congregate outside the Royal Standard in the 1950s - probably for a day excursion.
This photograph was taken at the beginning of demolition in 1959.
licensees
1871 – Thomas
Lacock – Glover
and Publican
(1871 census)
listed as Royall
Standard
in Paradise
1872 – Thomas
Lacock – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly's 1872
Directory)
1875 – Thomas
Lacock – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly's 1875
Directory)
1881 – Thomas
Locock –
Publican (1881
census) pub name
not listed
1889 – Thomas
Lacock – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly’s
Directory)
1891 – Thomas
Locock – Inn
Keeper (1891
census) listed
Royal Standard
at 14 Huish
1895 – Thomas
Locock – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly’s 1895
Directory) pub
not named
1897 – Mrs Jane
Locock – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly’s 1897
Directory) pub
not named
1900 – Mrs
Norman (Whitby's
1900 Yeovil
Almanack
Advertiser)
1901 – Eliza J
Norman –
Innkeeper (1901
census) pub not
named
1903 – Mrs
Norman (Whitby's
1903 Yeovil
Almanack
Advertiser)
1907 – W Cook
(1907 Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard, 54
Wellington
Street
1911 – Mr Cook
(1911 census
Summary) listed
as the Standard
1911 – Archibald
Axe (Whitby's
1911 Yeovil
Almanack
Advertiser)
1912 – Archibald
Axe (Whitby's
1912 Yeovil
Almanack
Advertiser)
1914 – John
Andrews – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly’s 1914
Directory) pub
not named
1923 – John
Andrews – Beer
Retailer
(Kelly’s 1923
Directory) pub
not named
1936 – John
Andrews (1936
Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard
1938 – John
Andrews (1938
Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard
1939 – Alice
Andrews (Kelly’s
1939 Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard PH at
69 Huish
1947 – A Andrews
(1947 Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard
1949 – H Walker
(Kelly’s 1949
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard
1951 – H Walker
(1951 Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard
1954 – H Walker
(1954 Yeovil
Directory)
listed as Royal
Standard