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Doodies Restaurant, St Owen's Street |
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Doodies, stands on the corner of St Owen Street and Cantilupe Street. The building has been considerably altered since it was first constructed in the early 17th century. The present frontage dates from the early 20th century. |
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When the building was erected it was not a corner building – Cantilupe Street was created in the 19th century - before that there was just the narrow St Thomas Street to the south-east of the building which now houses the pharmacist’s. It seems likely that the building originated as a private house rather than a shop, although there would be little if any structural difference. The corner of the restaurant is now number 48 St Owen’s Street, but the street has been renumbered and in the 19th century it was number 116. |
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When the building that houses Doodies was built in the 17th century this gate, St Owen’s, stood a few metres to the south-east. Doodies is just to the right of this view. |
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In 1863 number 116 was a lodging house run by Mrs Hannah Bishop and where Charles Pugh, an accountant, was a long-term resident. In 1868 Thomas Fletcher, a reporter for the Hereford Times and an agent for National Mercantile Life Assurance and Imperial Fire Insurance lived at 116 having moved from number 67 and In 1885 it was the house of Richard Crowe, a carpenter. In 1900, Thomas Smith, an insurance agent, lived here, while part of the building was used as a boys’ prep school. Next door at number 115 was Mrs Mary Jane Tombs, a milliner. A few doors away at number 111 was the bicycle shop of Albert Marriott. A few years later Albert Marriott extended his premises from 111 to include 116 and looked around for an architect and a builder to modernise the premises and to build a new bicycle works at the rear. The architects were Groome and Bettington of Hereford and the builders, Charles Cooke of St Owen Street. The work was carried out in 1904 and the costs were £797 for the new workshop and £341 for the conversion of the existing building and the insertion of the modern shop front. |
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Albert Marriott’s advertisement for his Royal Albert Cycles in the Hereford Times in the early 20th century |
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Apart from the main restaurant which offers an impressive and imaginative menu there is ‘Next door at Doodies’ serving tapas style food all day. Doodies also hosts music and exhibitions. |
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maintained by Archenfield Archaeology Ltd |
