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The Duke Of Wellington was situated on Wellington Terrace. This tiny parlour pub closed c1970.

Source: David Treen

Number 21 Wellington Terrace operated as a parlour pub, a type of small licensed premises run from a private home. Parlour pubs emerged following nineteenth-century licensing reforms that allowed householders to sell beer and cider and to brew beer on their premises. They typically had no beer taps; customers sat at trestle tables in the living room and drinks were served from the kitchen. Records in the Falmouth History Archive identify a beer retailer, Joseph Scantlebury, at the address in 1873. Mrs Annie Jeffry held the licence in 1902, and Frederick J. Eustace was landlord in 1930. In its later years the pub was run by Jimmy Gibbens. The pub, known locally as "The Dook," closed in the 1970s. The property was subsequently converted into two flats by John Angove, Gibbens' grandson and proprietor of the funeral directors W.J. Angove and Son, also located on Wellington Terrace.

Poly Falmouth (March 2026)

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