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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Gordon Pearson
The Cricketers Arms was situated on Romsey Road, opposite Palace Close.
Source: Ruth & Stephen
A brick built coaching inn of the 1830s complete with chalk walled stables. Largely rebuilt in 1923 following a fire, it was extended in the 1950s. It closed c1976 and was converted into two dwellings now known as Cricketers and By-The-Way.
Gordon Pearson (July 2019)
My Mother, Father and myself then about five years old lived in a converted commercial glider body at the rear of the public house in the 1950s. This was lifted over the roof of the Cricketers Arms by crane. We lived there for a short time after losing a rented property near Farley Mount which later became the home of James Robertson Justice the actor. The glider body was not very stable and one night started to slip down a bank! It was so damp inside that in the winter ice was not only on the windows but also under the pillows on the bed.
Barbara Child (August 2019)
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