ANON 2 - FARLEY’S HOTEL

Farley´s Hotel was located at 46-47 Union Street in Plymouth and got its name from the proprietor from 1853 to 1877, Mrs Farley, although the premises had been a hotel / bar before she took it over. CH Walter took over the premises in 1877 and as part of the advertising for the hotel a sketch map was drawn up to show potential tourists the location. The map has been seen in four separate publications, but no doubt it appeared more frequently. Walter remained the proprietor of the hotel until 1890.[1] The adverts always included a picture of the hotel, first from the corner aspect and later from the front.
The first appearance of the map is in Percy’s Calendar & Register for 1876. This small volume was a mixture of guide book and gazetteer but with a large advertising section at the back. The Three Towns Directory published only a year later also included the map. It is also found in a guide to Berry-Pomeroy dated to approximately the same time but the advertisement was probably used in other publications too.[2]
If O E Wood, whose name can be seen under the picture of the hotel, did draw the hotel then he or she may have also drawn the map. The name is missing from the second issue. Interestingly, Doidge’s Great Book Mart (see Cary Improved 5) can be seen on the plan, opposite the hotel.
A part of the hotel (last section) was sold by Mary Walter (widow) resident in Bristol to Abraham Routley in 1898.


Size 72 x 115 mm. No scale.



No title. No signature or imprint.The map occupies 2/3 of a right hand page of the directory and is printed vertically (i.e. to read one must turn the book). At the top of the page is DEVONSHIRE CALENDAR and at the bottom an advert for Mr & Mrs Cawsey’s second hand (cast off) clothing company. The left hand page, similarly split up, has a picture of Farley’s Hotel and part of a name can be read (Ae): O E WOOD, PLYMOUTH.

Description. A very simple map of central Plymouth from Stoke (Aa) and Mill Bay (Be) to the Citadel (Ee) with Farley’s Hotel central opposite Doidge’s Great Book Mart. Illustrated above.

1. 1876    The Devonshire Calendar and Register, For 1876.
                London. Percy and Co. 1876. KB.

2. 1876 The map is the same as state 1, but on one page and with text PLAN OF THE WEST END OF PLYMOUTH Showing the Position of FARLEY's Hotel. above the map itself and centrally placed below the illustration of Farley's Hotel.




            Berry-Pomeroy Castle:An Historical and Descriptive Sketch
            Totnes. T & A Mortimore. (1876). TQ.

3. 1877  Map and illustration on same page. No title but PLYMOUTH above map (below new picture of hotel from the front with no signature) and SUITES OF ROOMS FOR FAMILIES below map. No signature or imprint to map. Now Walter’s Farley Hotel is shown centrally (in Station Road). Illustrated below.

The Three Towns Directory for Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse 
Plymouth. W J Trythall. 1877. DevA.




4. 1881 Map and description on same page. No title but WALTER`S FARLEY HOTEL at top and description of position etc. Illustrated below.

Eyre Brothers´ P O Plymouth District Directory 2nd Edition 
London. Eyre Brothers. 1881. NLS, CUL, Bod (illustrated).


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NOTES:


[1] Dates of ownership taken from Chris Robinson´s Plymouth at https://www.chrisrobinson.co.uk/pubs/farleys-hotel/

[2 Although here T & A Mortimore, they also used the spelling Mortimer (see entry for Gregory).

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