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Description: | Shore Road leads to the river and in early times was the centre of life and activity in Warsash. It was in the house of Richard Bevis that the first religious services were held. Adjoining this was a shop owned by Miss Emily Bevis which was originally built as a chapel. Opposite was a clap gate which was to prevent cattle from straying from the common grazing ground down to the shore. Beyond was a wheelwrights and carpenters shop, owned by the father of Miss Bevis and later used by her brother, Owen Bevis.
Further on down the road was a coal store belonging to William Emery and behind it, his house. Then the Shipwrights Arms public house whose landlord was Ned Budden. The pub was open all day till 10.30 pm and was very noisy and boisterous but in the end it was bought by Mr Algernon Sartoris along with the blacksmiths next door, and the pub was closed down. At the east end of the house, a modern cottage was built and next to that, the blacksmith's forge. In 1870, Thomas Boyes was the blacksmith and he had in his possession a document showing that Widow Chiddell paid an insurance premium in 1779 for a thatched house and a small brewery behind. Several small cottages and Warsash Lodge completed the road apart from sheds and a sawpit used in the shipbuilding carried on here and a large patch of grassland. Andrew Haynes, the village blacksmith and his family lived here in a small cottage which was later pulled down. On the grassland by the cottage was the usual place for settlement of quarrels by fighting and the fights were frequent and frightening. Fights were still occurring on the grassland in 1861 but by 1938 there was no trace of it as it had been washed away by the tide. The fishpond used by James Lock to keep his fish with banks built of mud and seaweed was next, possibly originally built by the monks of either Hamble Priory or Titchfield Abbey.
Beyond was the first hard of Warsash, called Fawley Hard possibly because many barges were loaded there with corn which was going to Fawley Mill for grinding. Coal was also unloaded there for Mr Bevis who sold it from great heaps under some elm trees. Ships bringing coal from Sunderland were common and sometimes, when the wind failed, they were towed up the river by the men in rowing boats.
The Rising Sun faced the shore and near Passage Lane stood a well which supplied the cottages and the shipping which sailed from Warsash, with water.
Proceeding up the hill after the Rising Sun were several cottages, dating back to 1864, a more substantial brick and stone cottage, built about 1807 and possibly the home of the owner or overseer of the ship building yard by the shore. Two cottages were later attached to the house and a coal store.
The Warsash and District Annual Fair, was held further along, in the grounds of Warsash House every February. Run by Jimmy Burchell for many years, amusements included a shooting gallery, coconut shies and peepshows. His wife, a native of Warsash, made home made rock for the fair.
The entrance to the Warsash House estate and a row of cottages completed the road. Despite being a fairly small road in length, at the end of the 19th century it provided a wide variety of skills, crafts and commodities in such a small community.
Some of the cottages on the Shore Road were listed when the Warsash Estate was offered for sale in 1916. At that time the isolated building on the left of the picture, now occupied by the Royal Thames Yacht Club, was referred to as Dock Cottage.
Shore Road in early times was the centre of life and activity in the district and led down to the River Hamble.
References:
1. Spotlight Magazine. 1975.
2. F W L. 1992 Revised reprint. Short history of Warsash, p 4-13.
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