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Picture source: Bob Bates

The Old House At Home was situated on Cannon Street. This Scrases Star Brewery pub dated back to 1869 and became a Strongs Brewery house after it took over Scrases. It shut on 16th February 1964 when it became the subject of a compulsory purchase order.

My father Edwin Hunt used this pub during the second world war as shelter when being bombed. These are his words and he can still recall it all as if it was yesterday: 'This was in summer of 1940. Every night I would get into pyjamas put other clothes over the top and slept in the cellar on mattresses on the floor. I lived next to the pub at 104 Cannon St and this cellar was used by 3 families including the publican. Nov 30th or 1st Dec 1940 a bomb was dropped very near that burst a water main which filled the cellar with water and we had to evacuate. We then found a shelter at the bottom of Church St. Our own house had all the windows and part of the roof destroyed. We then left Southampton for Liphook . I would be able been 8 at the time.'

Edwin Hunt (March 2023)

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