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Picture source: Bob Bates
The Yacht Tavern was situated on Belvidere Road.
Source: Eddie Broomfield
Belonging to the Rectory of St Mary’s Church the first record of this building being used as a pub was in 1856 when Dan Hatcher a local boat builder was the landlord. On 31st December 1938 Eldridge Pope’s Dorchester Brewery brought the pub having rented it since 1879 . It closed in 1993 after being ransacked and vandalised by burglars.
Bob Bates (November 2013)
My Dad (Malcolm Allen - brothers Gordon & Pete) grew up in the Yacht Tavern. Here's his engraved cigarette case below - the only thing of his I kept after his death in 2013. He worked at Southampton Docks before taking on his own pub in 1970. I faintly remember Bert (or Herbert- he was a German immigrant and I believe changed our Germanic surname to Allen to avoid persecution during the wars) and his second wife Ella. Sadly Rose died before I was born. Julie (who also posted here) is my cousin but we've not met yet.
Sam Allen (February 2023)
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Name Dates Comments Julie Clark 1950s This pub was run by my grandfather & nana, Bert Allen & Rose Ann Allen when she passed away, grandad married again to Ella allen, ( Robinson) , until they retired in the 1970s, had many happy times their, my three aunties used to help out, Joan, joyce, & Sheila,
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Yacht Tavern engraved cigarette case	Picture source: Sam Allen