No idea where this pub was. Anyone?
Originally posted by @Sfcsim
Ocean Terminal?
That is, indeed, Ocean Terminal undergoing destruction in 1983: a sad day for me personally – I used to pass it en route to matches, home and away – and also, I believe, a sad day for the city – Ocean Terminal was an iconic Art Deco style building, especially its interior. Check out the bauble-on-a-pedestal above the W H Smith kiosk in the First Class Lounge!
Interesting article about Ocean Terminal below:
Nice work Sfcsim (and Goatboy)!
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I find posting some of these pictures, just a little depressing. Seeing some of the buildings and attractions that we did have, being replaced with some right tosh at times. But hey, all in the name of progress.
I also have a book that I got at a car boot sale from 1966 - City of Southampton guide/handbook. Loads of great old ads in it. It was owned by a Stephen Letterdale in 1967. Anyone know of him?
Hope you are still enjoying them. I am still surprised by some of the destruction of the city!
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The town un-planners have done a better job than Hitler ever did
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How elusory and arbitrary are memories of youth, blossoming like acne.
I used to get the 48A from The Clock Inn, Fair Oak and head in to town where Subway Records would be the first port of call.
Then on to the clothes shop (can’t recall the name but it was later a Doc Martens shop) at the back of the bus station.
Try on the harringtons and sta-press then off to central baths for a frogman’s eyeview of the plunging daredevils.
Lunch at Wimpy or later Huckleberry’s then back to the bus or the train (via Bondage and General in commercial road).
Over the years I ploughed on through Pringle and v-neck Lyle and Scott’s from Tyrells and went all vintage in Stage Door Johnnies, The Hidden Wardrobe and Decades.
Spent way too much money on Postcard Records in Underground and Weasels.
Now all my ebay shops are saved to favourites. 
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
How elusory and arbitrary are memories of youth, blossoming like acne.
I used to get the 48A from The Clock Inn, Fair Oak and head in to town where Subway Records would be the first port of call.
Then on to the clothes shop (can’t recall the name but it was later a Doc Martens shop) at the back of the bus station.
Try on the harringtons and sta-press then off to central baths for a frogman’s eyeview of the plunging daredevils.
Lunch at Wimpy or later Huckleberry’s then back to the bus or the train (via Bondage and General in commercial road).
Over the years I ploughed on through Pringle and v-neck Lyle and Scott’s from Tyrells and went all vintage in Stage Door Johnnies, The Hidden Wardrobe and Decades.
Spent way too much money on Postcard Records in Underground and Weasels.
Now all my ebay shops are saved to favourites.
I remember Stage Door Johnnies! Just off London Road?
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Yep.
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Western Esplanade 1900. This was the town swimming baths. They had separate male, left hand side of the building, with female on the right hand side.
