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Description: | East Street is a short stretch of pleasant Georgian houses leading from West Street to the Portsmouth Road. It still contains the Corner House Bakery or Soothill's which has been on the site for many years.
The Red Lion was an important coaching inn for many years. From the 1790's to the 1830's the proprietors of the inn were the Hewlett family and it was during this period in 1823 that William Cobbett stayed here while on his Rural Rides. It had been refronted in 1819. It was an important centre for public and private dinners, dances and hunt balls.
Florence White was an important cookery expert in the early 20th century who had visited the Red Lion from 1870 onwards as her three maiden aunts owned the hotel. Up until the 1930's she was writing cookery articles for papers and magazines and in 1932 she published Real English Cookery. In 1936 she began a cookery school at 160 West Street but it was not successful and by 1938 the premises were neglected and the rates were in arrears. By 1939 she was aged 90, nearly blind and poverty stricken.
References:
1. Pevsner, Nikolaus and Lloyd, David. 1967. Buildings of England. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, p. 225.
2. James, Alice. 1989. Fareham between the wars, p.36-37.
3. Brown, Ron. 1983. Fareham of yesteryear, p. 60-61. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | inn shop building ball street Florence White cookery school Corner House Bakery West Street Soothill's Portsmouth Road Hewlett Red Lion bakery event East Street Real English Cookery Red Lion Hotel book hotel dance Cobbett William Union Street | Temporal: | start=1983-08-01; end=1983-08-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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