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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.
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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
* Provided By Bob Bates