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The Washington Inn was situated at 31 Lower Canal Walk. Built in the 1930s on the site of an older pub, this pub closed on 10 January 1973 and became the ofiice of the local stevedores union. The original pub on this site was known as the Washington Hotel Tap, being the tap bar for the Washington Hotel in nearby Orchard Place, and dated back to the 1850s when Fred Wardell was the licensee. The 1878 Drink Map shows a fully licensed house on this site. Scrase’s Star Brewery owned the pub in the early years of the 20th century, it became the property of Strong’s Romsey Brewery in the 1920s, and was taken over by the Whitbread Group in 1969. The site is now a car park.

Source: Nigel Hoare

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