Railway Hotel, 102 Osborne Road, Portswood, Southampton, Hampshire

Southampton pub history index

This fully licensed Cooper’s Brewery pub was built on the site of the old Portswood Railway Station, when the station was relocated to it present site and renamed St Deny’s to accommodate the opening of the Portsmouth Southampton Line in the 1860’s, it changed to a Watney’s Brewery pub, before it closed in 1986 and was demolished to allow the construction of Thomas Lewis Way. July 1892 saw the landlord fined £2  for selling adulterated Whiskey over the bar * At Upper St Denys Road, Portswood in the 1871 census.

Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Southampton, Hampshire . The Southampton, Hampshire listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.

The Railway Hotel, 102 Osborne Road, corner St Deny’s Road, Southampton

Kindly provided by Bob Bates

The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1871/George Thomas Coulbert/../../../Coxs Directory

1907/Edward R Woolford/../../../Kellys Directory

1916/Edward Davis/../../../Kellys Directory

1925/Mrs Lillie Molland/../../../Kellys Directory

1927/Reginald F Daniel/Railway Hotel, 102 Osborne Road, Portswood./../../Kellys Directory

1940/Fras B Matson/../../../Kellys Directory

1946/Fras B Matson/../../../Kellys Directory

1954/Donald H Wright/../../../Kellys Directory