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Description: | In the centre of the photograph is the Royal Anchor. Originally of two storeys, a third was added in 1897. It is reputed that there has been an inn on this site since 1416. The Royal Anchor was one of the inns on the London to Portsmouth road and George III, Queen Victoria, Pepys and Nelson are all said to have slept there (though not all at the same time!). Queen Victoria presented an Elizabethan door with the royal arms to the inn. The title Royal was bestowed by George III, replacing the former name of the Blue Anchor. During the 18th century Tobias Smollett and John Wilkes were frequent visitors while Wellington and some of the allied generals lunched there on their way to London in 1815. The hotel was also used to house convicts on their way to Portsmouth for transportation and during renovation work in the early 20th century manacles and chains were found in the cellars and small cells were found behind the fireplaces.
Copy of a postcard. | 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 building John Wilkes H Nelson Blue Anchor King George III street S Pepys public house Tobias Smollett Queen Victoria hotel square The Royal Anchor | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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