Many Bridgwater residents will have fond memories of drinking at The Fountain Inn Bridgwater.

But who can remember life at the pub in the fifties and sixties?

Sue Blackmore spoke to the Mercury about her time at the pub in 2016.

Here's what the Bridgwater Mercury published on February 23, 2016

THEY played cards, they drank whisky and they had a good time at the Fountain Inn, Bridgwater.

Sue Blackmore has been talking to the Mercury about life at the pub in the late 1950s and the 1960s when her family were involved in what is still one of the town’s most popular pubs.

Bridgwater Mercury:

TEAM PHOTO: Regulars at the Fountain Inn line up for a photo in the late 1950s

“I grew up at the Fountain Inn,” she said. “My parents left in 1977. They had run the pub since 1954. My grandparents had been at the pub since 1910 and my parents Stan and Lily Crocker took it on as tenants. My parents had moved back from London where they were working at the time.”

She said the pub in those days had a bar at the front, where customers could sit at tables, with a second bar in the middle of the pub and then behind that was a snug.

“I remember there was a big downstairs cellar,” she said. “When my uncle Harry, who was only little at the time, went down into the cellars and got lost as he was brought up in the pub as well. My grandfather was also a builder and he built a wall down there to stop Harry getting lost again. You see, then the cellars were part of Bridgwater’s old castle and they went on and on under Castle Street and King Square.”

Bridgwater Mercury:

THAT’S A REAL PUB: The Fountain Inn, Bridgwater

Back in the day, patrons were almost all sailors as the ships came right up to the bridge back in the early 1950s and the regulars played euchre. Another character from those days in the 1950s was Eva Dyer, who ran several pubs in the town, as well as Betty Woods who did all the choreography for British Flag’s carnival entries and concert productions.

“I helped a lot in the pub when I was a girl, because I had to. I cleaned a lot of glasses and did cleaning and helped with the cooking. By then it was a more a proper local pub with regulars in the 1960s.

“There was a piano in the lounge, a bar and we lived upstairs. George Thomas used to play the piano and a lady called Mrs Atwell tried to teach me to play. George was brilliant and the pub would be full – all out into the street singing all the big hits of London.”