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The Belmont Tavern was situated on the corner of Portsdown Hill Road and Bedhampton Hill Road. This pub closed in the early 1970s and has now been demolished.

Source: David Fisher

I was born in 1951 and from the age of 12 used to stand on the corner outside the pub, waiting for the bus to take us up the hill to Purbrook Park County Grammar School. I don't remember ever drinking in the pub, but did go in once. A group of us went there carol singing at Christmastime. I didn't take my coat off and got extremely hot inside. When we finished, I rushed out to get some fresh air and promptly fainted in the middle of the road. Luckily no cars were coming and help was immediately at hand. Two kind people walked me home to Lodge Road, down the alley leading through from the red phone box on the south side of the road.

Shelley Wintle (February 2021)

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