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Picture source: Bob Pearce
The Royal Arms was situated at 14 Padwell Road.
Source: Bob Steel
In the 1870s Charles Swanson was landlord of this fully licensed Scrases Star brewery pub, which was later bought by Strongs Romsey brewery. In 1969 Whitbreads brewery took over when they purchased Strongs. The pub was nearly destroyed in 1941 when a Heinkel 111 bomber crashed into the house opposite causing the pub to be badly damaged and having to be propped up for many years after the war. It changed names to The Gatehouse before closing in 2008. Now converted into flats.
Bob Bates (November 2013)
My grandfather Henry James Dowse was licensee’til November 1892 not sure when he took it over, but in 1893 he moved to The Cricketer’s Arms in Bedford Place. In 1895 at the age of 40 he married and my mother was born in 1896! He moved on to The Cowherds Inn on the common around 1904 and stayed until the military took over at the beginning of WW1.
Stella Crocker (November 2023)
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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Bob Bates