68 Cheap Street (site), Newbury

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PubWiki indexes the Sun at 68 Cheap Street, Newbury (also 1869 Kelly's "Sun commercial Inn, St Marys hill, Cheap street"). Primary directory address for this place; Closed Pubs' 73 Cheap Street is recorded as an address variance for the same Sun Hotel identity.

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Brewery History Society Usher's Wiltshire Brewery pubs-in-Berkshire list includes Sun Hotel, Cheap Street, Newbury. Estate attribution only — no year or street number on that list; corroborates the Sun Hotel aka on Cheap Street.

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Closed Pubs: The Sun Hotel was situated on 73 Cheap Street, Newbury. PubWiki directories index the same Sun at 68 Cheap Street. Closed Pubs / HER also assign 73 Cheap Street to neighbouring Axe & Compass. Keep the PubExplorer place on the PubWiki 68 identity.

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Closed Pubs: The Sun Hotel on Cheap Street has now been demolished. No demolition year on that page. Distinct from Axe & Compass demolition in the 1960s for the A339 Relief Road (separate Closed Pubs / HER record).

Sun recorded in 1796 with William Arnold (Berkshire Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription.

Sun commercial Inn, St Marys hill, Cheap street recorded in 1869 with Robert Johnston (Kelly's Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription. Same Cheap Street / St Mary's Hill Sun as the 68 Cheap Street directory identity.

Sun at 68 Cheap Street recorded in PubWiki transcription of Kelly's Directory of Berkshire 1899 (Francis Evans).

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Sun at 68 Cheap Street recorded in PubWiki's Newbury 1911 census summary (Evans, public house).

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Sun recorded in 1931 with Edwd Jas Payne (Kelly's Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription. Latest directory row on the PubWiki Sun page; not a closing date.

Closed Pubs contact Mark Knapp remembers visiting the Sun Hotel with parents on Saturday mornings in the 1950s (room at the back used by Order of Buffalos; courtyard at the front).

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