The Bear Hotel, Devizes.

A trip to Devizes today as O had a netball tournament at Dauntseys School. She played netball while I walked around the town taking photographs. It's a lovely little town, with some great independent shops.

Some more information about the townhere.

This is the exterior of the Bear Hotel, a very traditional hotel in the market square.

In 1773 the following advertisement appeared in a newspaper of the time:

Thomas Lawrence most humbly begs leave to inform the Nobility, Gentry & others that he is now removed from the White Lion & American Coffee House, Bristol to the Black Bear Inn, Devizes, where he humbly entreats a continuance of their countenance & support assuring them that no endeavours of his shall be wanting to accommodate & oblige them in a manner most becoming.