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Description: | The Red Lion has been in existence since at least the 18th century. In 1774 an advert in the Hampshire Chronicle for gentlemen, gamesters and others, announced the game of Single Stick with the winner having one guinea and the runner up a crown on Whit Monday. On Tuesday, the 24th there was bull baiting, the dog that pins the bull fairest to have half-a-guinea.
A sale notice of 1834 states that the inn was well established and well accustomed. The advertisement describes the house as having two parlours, a taproom, a bar, seven bedrooms and a large clubroom under which was a large arched cellar. The yard was large with stabling for twelve horses, two coach and gig houses, other out buildings and a well stocked and walled kitchen garden. In 1830 John Cleverley was the landlord.
The Red Lion was put up for sale three times in the 1830's. The first time was when John Cleverley retired in 1830, then again in 1834 and finally in 1837 when the inn passed to Stephen Purkis and his wife Alice.
However according to the 1837 Tithe Map, the owner was John Parsons.
By the 1850's there were several beer houses in Stubbington, the Sun Inn, the Blacksmiths Arms in Titchfield Road and the Osborne View in Hill Head as well as the Red Lion which was allowed to sell a range of liquors. The landlord at this time was George Purkis and the pub was a well known meeting house. Later landlords were Charles Nicholson, William Tribbeck and his wife Mary Ann Tribbeck.
The Red Lion was the largest of the three public houses in Stubbington at the turn of the century. A bowling alley used to be at the back. It also had a fine mounting stone for the use of horsemen.
It was a popular staging post in the 1890's for tourists visiting Warsash for crab and lobster teas and also for fox hunts. In the 1960's a new Red Lion was built next to the old Red Lion which was then demolished. The site of the old pub is now a service road to Budgen's supermarket.
References:
1. Emery, John 1885. Fareham in old Picture Postcards, p. 107.
2. Palmer, Oonagh. 1998. Around Fareham, p. 9.
3. Emery, John. 1885. Fareham in old Picture Postcards, p. 107.
4. Stubbington WEA Local History Group and Crofton Women's Institute. 1984. A look at Stubbington - 1850-1875, p.48-50.
5. Brown, Ron. 1997. Stubbington and Titchfield, p. 117-118.
6. Prestidge, Colin. 1997. History of Stubbington, p. 173-174.
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