Memories of the Terminus Hotel in Weymouth

This is a picture from January 1984 of 'haggis arriving at the Terminus hotel' in Weymouth. The pub must have been preparing for Burns Night at the time!

It's thought that the picture features Rita and Mick and Rita was Scottish - hence the special celebrations.

This long gone pub was in Queen Street where most recently the Handmade Pie and Ale House was. It previously had another name - the Giant Pot.

Many readers have fond memories of the Terminus. Colin Park remembers playing pool there in the late 1970s and Lynda-Marie Walden remembers playing darts there.

Shirley Dunne remembers the Terminus as 'very ‘alternative’ in the 1970s'. She said: "It was a unique great juke box of rock music; you could get your ears pierced in the loo."

The Clifton Hotel, Bon-Bon gift shop, the Terminus and the Somerset Hotel. March 1986 when contractor Dunning was building the new railway station, left. Picture courtesy of Stuart Morris

Thanks must go to Stuart Morris for sending us this fascinating photo from March 1986 of The Clifton Hotel, Bon-Bon gift shop, the Terminus and the Somerset Hotel when contractor Dunning was building the new railway station, left. He tells us: "The taxi office was a 1970s replacement of a very interesting old building on the site."

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