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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton - Completed, with thanks
« on: Yesterday at 08:40 »
Southampton was heavily bombed during WWII. My father came back from the war to a town he barely recognised.

No 2 was a very narrow building!

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton - Completed, with thanks
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 21:09 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like they stopped doing food.

There's an interesting photo of the area dated 1910, but not clear enough to make out all the names on the buildings.

https://southampton.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/WPAC/BIBENQ/4122133/26109450,15

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 20:58 GMT (UK)  »
Southampton Libraries have a 1907 directory but the pages for East Street are missing  :(

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 20:42 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: AlanBoyd on Wednesday 19 November 25 20:38 GMT (UK)
A 1902 article about a petty theft at the Dorset Dining Rooms has the owner being Sophia Cozens the wife of William James Cozens.

It was clearly licensed at that time.

Yes, the accused had been drinking there.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 20:40 GMT (UK)  »
That's an interesting map.  So many breweries, almost one on every block!

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 20:30 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for the earlier advert Alan.  It definitely sounds more than a pub.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 20:29 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for that  :D

The newspaper article definitely says William Henry but they are often inaccurate.

On checking the 1901 census again I can see that he is at 2 East St.  I saw his occupation as Block Maker and didn't read further but he was also a Publican.

The Dorset Dining Rooms and The Angel were quite close together.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Dorset Dining Rooms, Southampton - Completed, with thanks
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
According to a newspaper article dated 23 March 1901 George Hamerton transferred the licence of the Dorset Dining Rooms to William Henry Cozens whilst George acquired the licence to The Angel Inn.   By the time of the census, later that month, George is at The Angel Inn, Southampton but the only William Henry Cozens that I can find is a Fisherman at Weston. I can't see a William Cozens at the Dorset Dining Rooms either.

I am trying to find out where the Dorset Dining Rooms were.  Can anyone help?

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World War One / Re: Killed in action...'somewhere in France'. Where did Arthur Wright die in 1915?
« on: Saturday 15 November 25 14:03 GMT (UK)  »
The newspaper article describes the battalion's heroics efforts during the second battle of Ypres, many were gassed.

https://www.barnesfamilyhistory.org.uk/firstworldwar/gallant_east_surrey.htm

The Menin Gate commemorates those soldiers who have no known grave - about 54,000. Conditions were dreadful and it would have been unsafe to collect some of the fallen from the battlefield without further endangering lives.

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