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The Somerset was situated at 241 Marston Road and is now used as a Chinese restaurant.

Now reopened as The Up In Arms.

T C (May 2019)

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Banks's £1.55 Cameron Strongarm £1.65 (9.ix.1998) It comes in two bits on the corner of Ferry Road and Marston Road, and the managers are brand new, just down from Dudley, but they'll take the sparklers off if you ask. "Do you like it flat then?" "Yes. I'm from the South", which is more convincing if you're not Scottish. Banks's, incidentally, is a reddish mild, which I don't like as much as Morrells Oxford Mild. Cameron Strongarm is excellent fruity stuff. The public bar is huge and has Sky TV in it, which is undetectable from the lounge. The lounge has a rather nice fireplace, a surprising amount of wainscoting, and a big bookcase full of eclectic and surprising hardbacks with cloth covers. I think they were chosen for their overall visual effect, because they range from maths textbooks to a partial dictionary of Hungarian to a collection of Browning. The radiators are rather good in winter, and in summer there's a beergarden with Aunt Sally. (9.ix.1998)

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