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Picture source: Pete Dakin
The Half Moon was situated in North Street and has now been converted to housing.
Source: Simon
This pub was bought by Vallance’s Sidmouth brewery in the 1920’s, who were taken over by Devenish (Weymouth) in 1958. It remained a Devenish house until it closed in 1985. It is now a private house that still retains one of the bar windows (see below)
Pete Dakin
I lived in North Street where the pub was situated (from 1974 until it closed). I rarely went into the pub itself but did go occasionally for off-sales into the area now an entranceway to the house. There was a hatchway which was opened to serve customers, and I think the area might have had doors on in the past. Locals called off-sales 'jug and bottle'. An area behind and slightly to the side of the pub was reputedly an animal pound in the past.
Sue Dymond (June 2021)
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Bar window retained in private house	Picture courtesy: Pete Dakin