Bullers Arms - Alphington Street

Any trace of this public house and the shops and other buildings within its community have long gone to be replaced by rows of parked cars and the Pizza Hut facing the twin Exe Bridges.

The first mention of the Buller Arms was in Trewmans Exeter Flying Post in January 1793, when, as was common in the paper at that time, it was reported that the landlord was leaving. If Bullers Arms is the only name to be given to the public house since it opened, it is like it must have opend sometime after

The Bullers Arms anticipated the popularity of the motor car when they applied for permission from the Council, in January 1904, to put up a sign that said "Motor Accommodation". This is the earliest reference I have found of a pub catering for users of these new fangled horseless carriages. The Council approved the sign on 23rd March 1904.

A notice in the Flying Post for January 1793 mentions the landlord leaving. In 1817, it suffered a fire in the brewhouse. The Various Buller's Arms in Exeter are often said to be named after General Buller. However, if you look at their dates of opening, they were all named after his father, James Wentworth Buller, MP for Exeter or his grandfather, also an MP. General Buller was born in 1839. Photo courtesy of Alan Mazonowizc.

1830 Nicholas Southwood
1839 Adam Johnson
1844 Francis Pratt
1850 George Scott
1851/59 John Scott
1878 George Bedford
1889 G Moore
1893 March William Henry Oliver
1895 Nov Alfred Folland Delve
1894 Mrs Anne Tucker
1896 Jan James Tucker
1898 April Henry Albert Moore
1899 Jan Henry John Hart
1909 Sep Mrs Sarah Hart
1914 Oct Bert Wellaway
1927 Sep Joseph Egnon Jones
1958 Jan Albert Maurice Kitchener Ford
1965 Oct Albert Samuel Rowe
1970 Jan House closed.

Source - History of the City and St Annes Well Brewery by Geoffrey Pring,