Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Imperial Hotel, Exeter

From Graces Guide
2020.
2020.
2020. The Orangery formerly part of Streatham Hall, Exeter

of New North Road, Exeter

formerly Elmfield House, Exeter

1923 Converted and opened as the Imperial Hotel. Margaret Pollard (wife of Norman Wallace Pollard) was the proprietor.

1924 Fire at the premises.[1]

1930 HQ of the Exeter Motor Club

1931 Norman W. Pollard, proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, Exeter.[2]

1934 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pollard, of the Imperial Hotel, Exeter.[3]

1935 Norman Pollard died.

Later owned by the Williams-Hawkes family

1938 Shown as the New Imperial Hotel.[4]

1939 Listed in directory.[5]

Sometime headquarters of the West of England Motor Club

1955 Listed. Mrs M. A. Williams Hawkes, Managing Director.[6]

1964 Listed. [7]

1994 Acquired by Wetherspoons

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Sources of Information

  1. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Monday 01 December 1924
  2. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Tuesday 13 January 1931
  3. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 05 January 1934
  4. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 14 April 1938
  5. 1939 Exeter Directory
  6. 1955 Exeter Directory
  7. 1964 Exeter Directory