The Brendon Arms
Brendon History - Hospitality, Horses & High Seas
 

Photo of Great Uncle George and coaches in front of the Falcon circa 1900

The Brendon family's reputation for hospitality was established in 1872 when George Brendon began to run the Falcon Hotel and Inn. Pictured here around 1900 is his eldest son, also George Brendon, seeing off their four-horse coach service which went to Boscastle, Tintagel and Clovelly. Over 130 years after George Brendon senior started serving customers, his great great grand-daughter Sophia Brendon holds the licence and continues the tradition of providing what has long been hailed as "The warmest welcome in the West"
Great Uncle George George Brendon senior, (left) was a great bon vivant. He had a ruddy, bearded, gooseberry-eyed look, not unlike that of King Edward VII.

This was probably induced, as it was in the monarch, by over-indulging in vintage port and ripe pheasant and by exercising (as he would have put it) spirited fillies on the hunting field and the chaise longue. Yeoman farmers, the Brendons helped to turn Bude into a popular holiday resort.