The Eastleigh Hotel. My Local in my formative teen years. Our gang took the average age of clientele in the lounge bar down to about 60 even we were all under 18!! Happy Days with The Friday Night War Cry Sellers and The Cockle Man being asked if he had Crabs every week!! Highlight of the week was the meat raffle which I won once!!
Ha! My brother-in-law bought that place with a partner of his in about 1987…they converted it into apartments. I remember having a look around to see if there was anything worth salvaging from the bars before the workmen came in. I saved a wrought iron gate which I have in my back garden.
Modern view from Google Earth…
Nearly - it’s the corner of St.Denys Road and Portswood Road. The building on the corner has a different roof now, but the giveaway is those strange first floor windows (kind of 3-up and 2-down) which are still there.
If I knew how to post screenshots from Google Earth I would but I ain’t no pap.
Trago Lounge?
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Portswood Road. Is this where the mitre pub stands?
Nearly - it’s the corner of St.Denys Road and Portswood Road. The building on the corner has a different roof now, but the giveaway is those strange first floor windows (kind of 3-up and 2-down) which are still there.
If I knew how to post screenshots from Google Earth I would but I ain’t no pap.
Trago Lounge?
Yep…
Interesting
Another balloon from the Southampton balloon festival in the 80’s. My dad worked for British Gas for 25 years, so a very familiar symbol this is from my childhood (I did not have my own balloon), in sticker and figure form.
An absolute treasure trove of old pubs long gone from The Southampton Area.
This is from the Facebook group Southampton Memories : People and Places. Isn’t that a fantastic shot?
That’s a great find, Eric. So many memories of my misspent youth in there!
Drove past there last weekend. The whole building is boarded, and there’s a ‘sold for develpment’ sign or two attached to it. Will it be flats or offices I wonder…
My dad (who taught economics round the corner at Southampton Tech from 1960 until he retired in 1988) used to refer to this shop as Edwin Jones for many years after it became Debenhams. Top pic, papster.
I rather like the building too - very redolent of its time. There’s an optimism about that style of architecture - looking forward rather than back.
Small world - my dad taught at the Tech too! He taught Maths to bricklaying apprentices. I used to have a Saturday job in Edwin Jones, working on the cigarette counter (!) and was Santa’s little helper in the Christmas school holidays! Good times 