
Bath Square
1865
Bath Square recorded as ...
Runs north from West Street/Bathing Lane to the north end of Broad Street and the Floating Bridge.
Turnings on east from south to north: Bathing Lane, Rowe’s Alley
Bethel Chapel (Independent), seats for 130 on east side, northwest corner of Bathing Lane
White Swan pub, on east side (also faces Broad Street)
Roebuck pub, on east side ( also faces Broad Street)
Fortitude Tavern, on east side (also faces Broad Street)
East and West Country House pub, on east side, northwest corner of Rowe’s Alley
Coal Exchange pub on east side
Union Tavern on east side, northwest corner of Broad Street
Warehouse and office on west side
Customs Watch House on west side
Isle of Wight Tavern on west side
Still Tavern on west side
Floating Bridge on west side
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 17 April 1815
Last week was married, at Kingston Church, Portsea, Mr James Martin of Bath Square to Miss Haskell, of Southsea.
Hampshire Chronicle : 22 January 1816
To be sold by Auction - by Mr Blake, at No 14 Bath Square, on Wednesday, the 24th day of January, 1816, at 10 o’clock, under the authority (as to part) of a writ of venditioni exparas from the Court of Exchequer, directed to the Sheriff of the County of Southampton, for the sale of the effects of Messrs Archibald Heurtley and John Carlen, of Portsmouth, Debtors to the Crown, and Bankrupts; by order of the Assignees of the said Bankrupts (as to the remainder) the following goods …
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 30 August 1819
S W Garratt of Bath Square, ship chandler &c. having been informed that it has been falsely and basely insinuated that he has declined his said business; he respectfully begs leave to acquaint Owners and Masters of ships , and others connected with shipping, in general, and his many kind and respectable friends of those descriptions, in particular, that he continues the said business as heretofore, and hopes for a continuance of the favours so long enjoyed by him and his relative, Mr James Beattie, assuring them that he will ever strive to endeavour to merit the same.
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser : Monday 16 May 1825
By J N Robinson, at his office, Bath Square, on Thursday, the 19th instant, at twelve precisely, the good substantial fast-sailing smack ‘Two Brothers’, 54 tons register ; Robert Pearce, Master. The vessel is built of the very best materials, is well found in all necessary stores, and carries a large cargo for her tonnage ; she is well adapted for the Fruit Trade, in which she has been frequently employed ; having had great care taken of her, she is completely ready for sea at a moment’s notice.
For Inventories and further particulars apply to the Broker, Bath Square.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 22 August 1831
The steam vessel ‘Lord Yarborough’, Captain Groves, will make the trip to Brighton on Monday, the 22nd day of August , 1831, (weather permitting) leaving Bath Square, in the morning at 8 o’clock: the King’s Rooms, Southsea at 8.15: the pier at Ryde at 9, and will on her return leave Brighton Pier, on Tuesday morning, the 23ed, at eleven o’clock, Fares 7s 6d each way, or 10s for passengers going and returning. Children and servants half price.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 9 May 1836
Wanted - A few strong young mules. Apply to Garratt and Gibbon, Bath Square.
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 12 September 1846
Joseph Knott applied to the Bench for an order to eject Charles Lewis from a tenement known by the sign of the Rose and Crown public house, Bath Square. Warrant of ejectment granted.
1851 Census
Properties not numbered
Louisa Byles : Victualler : 44 yrs
Fanny : Assistant : 42 yrs
William White : Fish Salesman : 38 yrs
Maria : 36 yrs
William : Fish Dealer : 16 yrs
Thomas : 14 yrs
John : 12 yrs
Maria : 10 yrs
James : 8 yrs
Alfred : 4 yrs
Richard : 2 yrs
Ellen : 6 months
Catherine Sargis : Servant : 22 yrs
Emma Main : Husband at Sea : 19 yrs
James : 1 yr
Ann Burnett : Charwoman : 22 yrs
Thomas Hales : Mariner, Master of a Cutter : 50 yrs
Charlotte : 50 yrs
John Proctor : Trinity House Pilot : 56 yrs
Sarah : An Invalid : 44 yrs
Elizabeth : Servant : 39 yrs
Jane : Dressmaker ; 20 yrs
Fanny : 5 yrs
Elizabeth Main : 53 yrs
Mary Ann : 23 yrs
Thomas : Mariner : 29 yrs
Henry : Mariner : 27yrs
Edward : Apprentice : 25 yrs
George : Apprentice : 23 yrs
Elizabeth : At Home : 20 yrs
Ann Attrill : 31 yrs
Thomas : Mariner : 39 yrs
Julianna Bowden : Master Block Maker : 62 yrs
John : Master Block Maker : 25 yrs
Thomas Hale : Hotel Keeper : 61 yrs
Elizabeth : 38 yrs
Joseph Swayne : Tanner : 51 yrs
Elizabeth Bill : Barmaid : 25 yrs
Jane Radness : Cook : 55 yrs
Elizabeth Brown : Chambermaid : 23 yrs
Sarah Newman : Waitress : 20 yrs
Henry : Boots : 46 yrs
William Penny : Tide Surveyer : 41 yrs
John James : Tide Waiter : 36 yrs
Henry Hill : Tide Waiter : 27 yrs
William Smith : Tide Waiter : 49 yrs
George Godwin : Tide Waiter : 52 yrs
William Whiting : Tide Waiter : 39 yrs
James Chittenden : Tide Waiter : 52 yrs
James Alldead : : Victualler ; 50 yrs
Robert Peck Moore : Ship Agent’s Clerk : 36 yrs
Martha : 43 yrs
Fanny Bertha : 6 yrs
Mary Ann Helleridge : Servant : 18 yrs
Harriet Leverett : At Home : 34 yrs
Jane : Victualler : 31 yrs
Mary Ann Burt : At Home : 20 yrs
Elia Leverett : 22 yrs
Henry : Mariner : 16 yrs
Matthias : 14 yrs
Ellen : 11 yrs
Sarah Fraser : 52 yrs
Mary Ann Farlow : 34 yrs
Thomas Knowlson : Mariner : 18 yrs
Thomas Frampton : Fish Salesman : 37 yrs
Ann : 36 yrs
Eliza : 17 yrs
Thomas : 16 yrs
Emily : 14 yrs
George : 12 yrs
Mary Ann : 9 yrs
Ann : 8 yrs
Charles : 6 yrs
Jane : 4 yrs
Alice : 2 yrs
Jessie : 1 yr
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 10 March 1855
Broad Street & Bath Square
Excellent opportunity to Ship - Chandlers, Outfitters, and others, seeking first - rate Business Premises
Marvin and King have been favoured with instructions from the Devisee in Trust, under the will of Mrs Mary Pullen, deceased, to sell by auction, at their property sale rooms, 34 Queen Street, on Wednesday, March the 14th, 1855, at six for seven o’clock in the evening, in one lot, all those commandingly situated Business Premises ...
The front part (48 Broad Street, in the occupation of Mr Windsor, Outfitter and tailor), on the ground floor is divided into a well-planned attractive shop, with parlour, kitchen, paved yard and scullery, with a side entrance in passage leading from Broad Street to Bath Square, and front private entrance in Broad Street.
On the first floor, which is reached by an excellent staircase from a good roomy hall, is a large lofty drawing room, and two good bedrooms, and on the second floor are four other bed chambers, above which is a store room.
In the rear, and fronting into Bath Square is an exceedingly well-arranged store of 3 floors and shop, tenanted by Mr Vine, Ship Chandler &c. This property presents the valuable frontage of 20 feet, both in Broad Street, and Bath Square, and has a depth of 78 ft 6 inches.
The premises may be viewed by permission of the respective tenants, and further particulars may be obtained at the Auctioneer’s Office ; or of Messrs H and R W Ford, Solicitors, 170 Queens Street, Portsea.
1891 Census
Premises not individually identified
James Main : Publican : 44 yrs
Elizabeth A : 41 yrs
Lilly Brown : Dressmaker : 18 yrs
George : Boat Builder : 14 yrs
Emma : General Servant : 18 yrs
Edward Long : Seaman Gunner, RN : 33 yrs
John Feltham : Boat Builder : 44 yrs
Jane : 45 yrs
Emily : 14 yrs
Alfred : 12 yrs
Bessie : 10 yrs
George : 9 yrs
Rose : 7 yrs
Harry : 5 yrs
Ada Egerton : Housekeeper : 45 yrs
Arthur : 21 yrs
Rooms above Store
Charles Pound : Fisherman :29 yrs
Helen : 24 yrs
Phillip : 5 yrs
Dorothy : 1 yr
Charles : 1 yr
1901 Census
no number
John D Feltham : Yacht & Boat Builder : 54 yrs
Jane : 55 yrs
Alfred : Yacht & Boat Builder : 22 yrs
George : Yacht & Boat Builder : 19 yrs
Rose : 17 yrs
Harry : Yacht & Boat Builder : 15 yrs
Fred D : 9 yrs

1 Bath Square
“Coal Exchange”
1861 Census
Frank Baker : Publican : 46 yrs
Martha : 36 yrs
Arthur Meadows : Seaman, RN : 19 yrs
Henry Jolliffe : Seaman, RN : 20 yrs
William Falcken : Royal Marine : 40 yrs
Richard Gorringe : Seaman, RN : 28 yrs
George Hammond : Seaman, RN : 27 yrs
Alfred Scott : Seaman, RN : 26 yrs
Edward Bridger : Apprentice Seaman : 17 yrs
1871 Census
“Coal Exchange”
John Hill : Licensed Victualler : 30 yrs
Sarah : 30 yrs
Walter : 2 yrs
John H : 1 yr
James Fregent : Tailor : 50 yrs
Robert : Captain’s Cook, RN : 31 yrs
1881 Census
“Coal Exchange”
Sarah Richardson : Licensed Victualler : 65 yrs
Henry E : Royal Navy Pensioner : 40 yrs
Eliza Brewster : 63 yrs
George Camp : Working on Floating Bridge : 41 yrs
George Best : Greenwich Pensioner : 74 yrs
Frances : 67 yrs
Richard Sherrett : Waterman : 66 yrs
Martha : 53 yrs
1891 Census
Harriet Richards : Licensed Victualler : 54 yrs
Minnie : 25 yrs
Kate : 27 yrs
George : Butcher : 23 yrs
Ernest : 5 yrs
George Board : Sail Maker : 36 yrs
Joseph Stanberry : Sailor, RN : 25 yrs
1901 Census
Elizabeth Cook : Licensed Victualler : 42 yrs
George W : Shipsmith : 21 yrs
Beatrice : 15 yrs
Alice : 12 yrs
Sidney : 3 months
Thomas Damp : Casual General Labourer : 53 yrs
William E Sorell : Casual general Labourer : 43 yrs
1911 Census
“Coal Exchange”
Henry Fain : Cabinet Maker : 58 yrs
(1901 & 1891, living at 45 St Pauls Rd, cabinet maker; 1881 living at 10 Dorville Rd, Lee, Kent, cabinet maker).
Elizabeth : 53 yrs
Arthur Robert : 13 yrs
Frank Fitzjohn : Seaman, RN : 32 yrs
Ellen : 30 yrs
Alice Sarah : Assistant in Business : 21 yrs
Ida Olive : 4 yrs
Elizabeth Ellen : 2 yr
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 9 October 1916
Boy wanted, just left school. Hours 10am to 2pm, 6pm to 8pm
Apply Coal Exchange, Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 8 September 1926
Children in a Bar - In view of his good character, the case against Charles W Tarrant, Licensee of The Coal Exchange, Bath square, who was summoned for allowing children under 14 in his bar, was dismissed on payment of costs.
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 22 February 1936
Lost - Dance Tickets, Cabaret Ball Pavilion, March 13th, Nos 67 - 101. Reward offered if returned to Coal Exchange, Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 14 February 1949
Driver’s 13th Offence and Fifth Ban £25 Fine Imposed
Accused of driving dangerously in Commercial Road at 1.30 am on New Years day, a Portsmouth Licensee was fined £25 and disqualified from driving for a year by City magistrates today.
Costs of £4 9s 6d were also ordered against the defendant, Alfred Charles Woods of 1 Bath Square.
A record of his previous offences showed this to have been his 13th in connexion with motoring and his fifth disqualification since 1938.
James George Cole of 85 Grosvenor Street, Southsea said he was driving at 10 mph towards the railway bridge , when Woods’s car came round the bend from the Guildhall, under the bridge on his wrong side and a collision occurred. Edith Lillian Cole, wife of the witness gave corroborative evidence.
Arthur Mobbs of 17 Chichester Road, North End said he saw Woods’s car sweep round the bend with a “heavy list,” and at an excessive speed.
“He tried to pull it round but it would not come. There was an impact with a smaller car (driven by Mr Cole), one of the wheels of which was wrenched off.”
Woods, who described himself as a licensee and civil engineer, said the weather was veryt bad at the time, with high gusty winds, and the visibility was poor. He held that he ws travelling at 15 and 25 mph on his correct side of the road, and that it was the other car that struck him.
“I just heard a flick which was so slight that had I not had a passenger I would not have known that an accident had happened.”
Mr J R Glanville appeared for woods.

2 Bath Square
“West Country House”
1861 Census
Thomas Gray : Publican & Painter, emp 1 m1n : 34 yrs
(bapt 9 April 1826 at St Thomas’s, Father Thomas, Mother Alice).
Louisa : 33 yrs
1871 Census
Charles Cole : Master Mariner : 33 yrs
1851 living at 55 Broad St, Father William, Victualler, 45, Mother Sarah H, 46;
Rhoda : 35 yrs; 1861 living in White Horse St, beer retailer).).
Henry Webb : Mariner : 25 yrs
Walter : 9 yrs
Rhoda : 8 yrs
Charles Cole : 2 yrs
John : 8 months
Jane Harris : 27 yrs
Lilly : 1 yr
Lavinia Wassell : General Servant : 16 yrs
1881 Census
John Cole : Waterman & Publican : 37 yrs
Elizabeth : 34 yrs
George Hollest : : Royal Navy Pensioner : 57 yrs
John R White : General Carpenter : 41 yrs
Mary A : 28 yrs
Alfred : 9 yrs
Richard : 7 yrs
Edward : 5 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 8 November 1932
Alleged to have been caught in the act of stealing a cycle pump at the Victoria Hall last night, John Edwin Henry Allison (18), of 2 Bathing Lane was remanded on bail for a week after Det Hughes had described the circumstances of the youth’s arrest.
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 29 March 1933
City Police Court - Employees’ Insurance
Fines of 10s in each case were imposed upon Mrs Eliza Elizabeth Olliver, a widow, of the Still and West Country House, Bath Square., who pleaded guilty to three offences under the National Health and Unemployment Insurance Act.
It was stated that she omitted to pay the health and unemployment contributions in respect of a pianist employed on the premises, and the health contributions in respect of a domestic servant.
Mr A Glanville, who represented Mrs Olliver, said she was not aware that insurance contributions were payable for the pianist, and in the case of the domestic servant they were overlooked.
The arrears of £2 1s 2d were paid when the summonses were issued.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 24 November 1942
Amy Agnes Bates, licensee of the Still and West Country House . Case dismissed for supplying drinks out of hours.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 17 July 1951
Decree Nisi granted by Judge A Tylor KC at Southampton Divorce Court yesterday to Irene Laura Mary Clark of the Still and west Country House, Bath Square, on the ground of desertion by her husband, Frederick George Clark. Married in 1930 at St Mark’s Church, North end, they lived at 84 Knox Road, Stamshaw. Costs were ordered against the respondent.
3 Bath Square
1891 Census
Unoccupied
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 7 July 1920
To Let - spacious two storey store, No 3 Bath Square. Suitable for garage.
4 Bath Square
1861 Census
Elizabeth Main : Pilot’s Widow : 66 yrs
Henry : Merchant Mariner : 37 yrs
1871 Census
William Denham : Retired Gardener : 63 yrs
Sarah : 60 yrs
William : General Labourer : 23 yrs
John : Engineer’s Steward : 20 yrs
Emma : General Servant : 17 yrs
George : General Labourer : 14 yrs
George Smith : Stoker on Steam Vessel : 36 yrs
Emily : 30 yrs
William Walker : 11 yrs
George : 8 yrs
William Butler : Mariner : 73 yrs
Martha : 50 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 16 June 1939
Austin 7 Van, good running order, £15
Bates, 4 Bath Square.
5 Bath Square
1861 Census
John Cummings : Seaman School Master, Pensioner, RN : 44 yrs
George R T : 10 yrs
James : 3 yrs
1871 Census
William Osbourne : Mariner : 32 yrs
Emily : 32 yrs
Emily : 10 yrs
Jessie : 8 yrs
Fanny : 6 yrs
Edith : 4 yrs
1881 Census
Unoccupied
1891 Census
Store
6 Bath Square
1861 Census
Thomas Frampton : Fish Salesman : 44 yrs
(1841 living in Tower St as Fish salesman; 1851 living in Bath Square as Fish salesman,
Ann : 45 yrs).
Thomas : Fish Salesman : 25 yrs
Mary A : 18 yrs
Ann : 17 yrs
Charles : Fish Salesman : 16 yrs
Jane : Dressmaker : 13 yrs
Jessie : 11 yrs
Alice : 9 yrs
Henry : 7 yrs
Mary A Martin : Dressmaker : 18 yrs
1871 Census
Thomas Frampton : Fish Salesman : 54 yrs
Ann : 55 yrs
Jane : Dressmaker : 21 yrs
Thomas : Fishmonger : 32 yrs
7 Bath Square
1861 Census
Thomas Attrill : Marine Merchant : 47 yrs
Ann : 37 yrs
Edward : 7 yrs
Emily : 6 months
1871 Census
Unoccupied
1881 Census
Unoccupied
1891 Census
Sarah Cottrell : Living on own Means : 44 yrs
George : Clerk : 18 yrs
Sarah : General Servant : 14 yrs
Frances Bess : Living on own Means : 78 yrs
1901 Census
Sarah Cottrell : Licensed Victualler : 51 yrs
George : Builder’s Clerk : 28 yrs
William Golding : Retired Waterman : 75 yrs
George Batchelor : Mariner : 32 yrs
1911 Census
Richard James Hooper : Fish Porter : 34 yrs
Alma : 31 yrs
Arthur : 8 yrs
Percy : 4 yrs
Harold : 3 yrs
Cyril : 2 yrs
William Jenney : Pier Toll Collector : 36 yrs
(1901 living as lodger at 307 Somers Rd, ticket collector in Harbour;).
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 17 September 1913
Three small houses to let: rent 6s inclusive
Apply : Hooper, 7 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 12 March 1931
£5, BSA 2.75 hp, good condition, tyres etc.,genuine bargain
7 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 5 March 1932
Monday 21st March 1932, sale of investment properties in Portsmouth, Field and Palmer are instructed to sell by auction on the above date, at 6.30 pm :-
7 Bath Square
www.zoopla.co.uk : House Prices : Sunday 7 May 2017
For Sale at £730,000.
8 Bath Square
1861 Census
Robert Mitchell : Hairdresser : 52 yrs
(1871 Licensed Victualler at “White Swan”, 54 Broad St; died 1874).
Jane : 50 yrs
William H : 9 yrs
Mary A : 7 yrs
William Andrew : Ship Master : 36 yrs
Jane : 36 yrs
David : 16 yrs
Robert : 1 yr
Alexander Ray : Mate, Seaman : 25 yrs
1871 Census
James Hudson : Master Mariner : 45 yrs
Mary : 35 yrs
James : 13 yrs
Mary : 11 yrs
George : 9 yrs
Louisa : 7 yrs
Sarah : 5 yrs
1911 Census
John Feltham : Yacht & Boat Builder : 64 yrs
(1901, 1891 living in Bath Square; 1881 living in North St Alverstoke as boat builder; 1871 living at 40 York St Cowes, single, boat builder;
Jane : 64 yrs
Rose : 27 yrs
Frederic : Shipwright : 21 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 14 March 1914
Montagu Henry Foster, deceased. By instructions from the Executors.
On Monday March 23rd, 1914
Field & Palmer are instructed to sell by auction, at their property Mart, 3 King’s Road, Southsea, on the above date, at 7 o’clock in the evening
Nos 1 and 3 West Street, two good dwelling houses, let at 5s and 6s per week
No 9 Broad Street, a double fronted property, adjoining the foregoing, let at 5s per week, tenant paying rates.
No 8 Bath Square, well situate waterside property, let to Messrs Feltham and Son, Boat Builders
9 Bath Square
1871 Census
Christopher Pearson : Marine Engineer : 45 yrs
(1861 living at 32 East St, working as engine driver in factory; 1881 living at 19 Bath Square, Greengrocer; died 1888).
Ann E : 38 yrs
Susannah Higgins : Laundress : 64 yrs
1881 Census
Henry A Anthony : Waterman : 30 yrs
Emma : 28 yrs
Harriett E : 7 yrs
Henry G : 3 yrs
Alfred Morris : Clerk at Pickford Bros : 22 yrs
1891 Census
Henry Anthony : Mariner, Merchant : 40 yrs
Emma : 38 yrs
Edith : 9 yrs
Lydia : 4 yrs
Samuel Lyon : General Labourer : 32 yrs
1901 Census
Henry A Anthony : Mariner : 52 yrs
Emma J : 48 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 15 February 1902
By order of the Executrix of the late Mrs Ollis, deceased, and others, to builders, speculators, investors and others, on Monday next, February 17th, 1902, Field and Palmer are instructed to sell by auction, on the above date, at seven o’clock in the evening the following freehold property :-
9 Bath Square, Let to Mr Lyne at 5s per week, tenant paying water rates.
1911 Census
John Lawson Hill : Fish Salesman’s Clerk : 33 yrs
Elizabeth Ellen : 33 yrs
John Lawson : 8 yrs
Marjorie Gertrude : 6 yrs
Charles Henry : 2 yrs
William Ronald : 1 yr
Ellen Kemp : 69 yrs
Ellen Jane : Stay Tanner : 28 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 12 May 1951
Mrs T H Fisher of 9 Bath Square, a member of Portsdown Archery Club, was the winner of the Southern Counties Ladies Archery Championship at Winchester yesterday, with a total score of 1193 out of a possible 2592.
Mrs Fisher, who has been shooting for five years, won the championship two tears ago. She has been local club champion for three years and has competed in two international championships, creating a world record score for the 50 metre short distance in Paris in 1949.
In yesterday’s even she shot 288 arrows at distances of 50, 60, and 80 yards.
10 Bath Square
1871 Census
Lucy Bytheway : Beer Retailer : 46 yrs
Sarah Barber : General Servant ; 17 yrs
11 Bath Square
1881 Census
Charles Frampton : Fish Salesman : 37 yrs
Caroline : 40 yrs
Sarah Brooke : 16 yrs
1891 Census
Charles Frampton : Fish Merchant : 46 yrs
Caroline : 49 yrs
Sis Brooker : 26 yrs
1901 Census
Charles Frampton : Fish Merchant : 57 yrs
Caroline : 60 yrs
Gertrude Daum : 23 yrs
1911 Census
Charles Frampton : Fish salesman : 65 yrs
Gertrude Dennis : 33 yrs
Gladys Malcom : 16 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 5 November 1923
The funeral took place at Eastney Cemetery on Saturday, of Mr C Frampton (79), one of the oldest fishermen in the town, who died at 11 Bath Square. The mourners present were: Messrs Will Quelch, J Patterson, Law, Cook, T Damon, and A Osborne (nephews). Councillor A E Hooper; and Messrs J Jones, H Barnes, Chandler, J Burgess, C Slape, J Hill, S Slaughter, and Nurse Clarke
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 6 January 1953
A wreath of holly leaves with a decorative red ribbon has hung on the door of the home of Dr J K Hewat at 11 Bath Square since Christmas Eve. Dr Hewat comes from Canada where it is traditional to have a wreath on the door until Twelfth Night.
12 Bath Square
1871 Census
William White : Fish Merchant : 37 yrs
(1861 living at 18 Bath Square; died 1910).
Anne : 33 yrs
Maria : 12 yrs
William : 11 yrs
Henry T : 10 yrs
Alfred : 9 yrs
Rebecca : 6 yrs
Richard : 2 yrs
John : 6 months
13 Bath Square
1871 Census
Unoccupied
1881 Census
Unoccupied
1891 Census
William Lucas : Sail Maker : 41 yrs
Georgina : 41 yrs
Ada G : 19 yrs
William G : Sail Maker’s Apprentice : 19 yrs
Kate E : Milliner : 15 yrs
Sidney : 13 yrs
Nellie E : 11 yrs
Blanche H : 8 yrs
Nettie E Lucas : 6 yrs
Thomas R : 4 yrs
Ida G : 2 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 26 March 1895
Inquest on James Beal, aged 66 years, a fisherman lodging with Mr and Mrs John Gawn at 17 Crown Street. He did not enjoy good health, having been in the Hospital for long periods. About six o’clock last Tuesday evening Charles Pounds, a fisherman of 13 Bath Square, saw deceased walk on the Outer camber and lean against one of the iron stanchions to which chain running round the Camber is attached. Shortly after Pounds heard that he had fallen overboard, and, looking into the camber, saw him in the water with his head below the surface. Pounds jumped in and held the deceased’s head above the water until a boat came and took them both ashore. Deceased was quite insensible, but after artificial respiration had been resorted to by Constable Hollis and others he recovered consciousness, and was, on Dr Morley’s advice, wrapped in blankets and taken to the Hospital ...where he died of pneumonia. Constable Hollis that Pounds had saved three people from drowning. The Coroner expressed his gratification as the plucky way in which Pounds had behaved, and said that if some evidence could be obtained of the other cases he would be pleased to recommend him to the Royal Humane Society. Beal fell into the water as a direst result of poorly maintained chains on the Camber edge.
1901 Census
William A Smith : Fish Merchant : 31 yrs
Emma : 28 yrs
William : 7 yrs
Robert J : 3 yrs
James S : 1 yr
1911 Census
Emma Smith : Housework : 38 yrs
Robert : Milk Boy : 13 yrs
James : 11 yrs
Lily : 9 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 3 March 1954
For Sale - 1947 Standard 8 Tourer. 1951 engine in first class cond. £250
McDonald, 13 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 16 June 1954
For leaving a car in London Road, North End, without stopping the engine, Edith Daisy McDonald of 13 Bath Square was fined £2 at Portsmouth Magistrates Court today.
14 Bath Square
"Three Horse Shoes Tavern”
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 22 January 1816
To be sold by auction, by Mr Blake, at No 14 Bath Square, on Wednesday, the 24th day of January 1816, at 10 o’clock, under the authority (as to part) of a writ of venditioni exparas from the Court of Exchequer, directed to the Sherriff of the County of Southampton, for sale of the effects of Messrs Archibald Heurtley and John Carlen, of Portsmouth, Debtors to the Crown, and Bankrupts; and by order of the Assignees of the said Bankrupts (as to the remainder) the following goods, viz ...
Two Pieces of Brandy, one Pice of Hollands Geneva, 15 casks of bottles Claret, 22 cases of ditto, six casks of bottled Porter, Five barrels of Porter, about 400 bottles of sweet oil, some Glass Ware, &c Marine Soap, Cordage, &c., and also a quantity of office furniture, consisting of Counting House Desks, Library and other Tables, Iron Chests, Copying Machine, &c &c , a few Maritime Paintings, sundry other effects. Catalogues may be had and other particulars known by applying to George Hollis, Esq., Under Sherriff, Winton, Messrs Greethem, Portsmouth, Messrs Minchin and Weddell, Gosport, at the place of sale and of the auctioneer, Ordnance Row, Portsea.
The goods to viewed two days before the sale, between the hours of 10 and 3 o’clock.
1871 Census
Gregorio Bacigalupo : Licensed Victualler : 48 yrs
(born 1823 Italy; 1861Victualler same address; 1881 same address;).
Harriett ; 36 yrs
Francisco : 18 yrs
John : Sail Maker’s Apprentice : 16 yrs
Maria : Assistant to House : 14 yrs
Gueseppina : 13 yrs
Henrietta : 4 yrs
Francis Gelly : Musician : 24 yrs
Hannah : 21 yrs
Donnell Marshall : Musician : 24 yrs
Mary A : 24 yrs
Edwin Sale : Musician : 22 yrs
1911 Census
Richard Gray : Pensioner, Formerly Carrier’s Agent : 73 yrs
Elizabeth Jane Bandy : 45 yrs
Edward William Creedon : Head Cashier & Book Keeper : 29 yrs
15 Bath Square
1871 Census
Unoccupied
1881 Census
John Taw : Waterman : 27 yrs
Helen : 24 yrs
Fobia : 3 yrs
John : 1 yr
1891 Census
John Taw : Mariner, Merchant Service : 39 yrs
Nellie : 32 yrs
Flora : 13 yrs
John : 11 yrs
Lillie : 9 yrs
Edward : 5 yrs
Madeline : 7 yrs
Mabel : 1 yr
1901 Census
John Taw : Waterman : 51 yrs
Florence : 23 yrs
John : Maltster : 20 yrs
Madeline : 17 yrs
Edward : Errand Boy : 15 yrs
Mabel : 11 yrs
Fred : 7 yrs
Arthur : 1 yr
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 5 March 1932
Monday 21st March 1932, sale of investment properties in Portsmouth, Field and Palmer are instructed to sell by auction on the above date, at 6.30 pm :-
15 Bath Square
16 Bath Square
1871 Census
Unoccupied
1911 Census
Nigel O Walker : Carrier : 33 yrs
Emily Rangemont : Servant : 35 yrs
Adrian : Page Boy : 14 yrs
17 Bath Square
1871 Census
Elizabeth Butcher : Supported by Relatives : 67 yrs
Robert : Mariner : 43 yrs
Richard : Mariner : 41 yrs
James : Mariner : 29 yrs
1881 Census
Edward Neald : Cook out of Employ : 49 yrs
Emily : 54 yrs
Terbepen : 24 yrs
Emily : 14 yrs
Albert E : General Labourer : 20 yrs
Charles Bryant : Oil Man : 46 yrs
Elizabeth : 41 yrs
Ernest : Joiner’s Apprentice : 13 yrs
George A Cannon : Painter & Plumber : 29 yrs
Frederick C Baker : General Hawker : 53 yrs
1891 Census
Joseph Coppin : Mate of a Ship : 47 yrs
Maria : 45 yrs
Nora J : Dressmaker : 19 yrs
Matthew Edward Wann : 27 yrs
George Otley : Mate of Merchant Ship : 30 yrs
Annie : 30 yrs
Jane Ford : 78 yrs
Emma : 1 yr
18 Bath Square
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser : Tuesday 26 December 1826
To ships chandlers, ship agents, &c., to be sold let on lease for seven, fourteen or twenty years, all those truly desirable freehold premises, No 18, Bath Square, Point, Portsmouth, expressly built for the ship chandelling business, containing a large and commodious shop, completely fitted up, a tanked cellar, capable of containing a large quantity of provisions, two roomy olfts, and a dwelling house under the same roof. These premises comprise every convenience for carrying on any extensive business relating to shipping, being, in fact, one of the first situations in Portsmouth, and within 50 feet of the water side. Apply (if by letter, post paid) to Mr A Beattie, Gosport.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 30 March 1829
To be sold by auction by Mr J N Robinson, on Friday, the 3rd day of April, 1829, to commence at eleven o’clock, at 18 Bath Square, Point, the stock of a ship chandler, consisting of a variety of ship and cabin stores, carpenter’s and cooper’s tools, a twelve inch new cable, a quantity of new and secondhand anchors, ditto canvas,, a large assortment of crockery and stone ware, sixty dozen square quart glass bottles, pitch, tar &c.. ; also a beautiful model of atwelve oar barge, in glass case, representing his late Majesty George III going to view Lord Howe’s fleet, after the glorious first of June action. For further particulars, apply at the Broker’s Office, opposite the Custom House.
1861 Census
Ann Board : Wife of Customs Officer, out door : 36 yrs
Henry : 8 yrs
George : 5 yrs
Sarah : 2 yrs
Joseph Bryant : Labourer in Dockyard : 33 yrs
Rosina : 25 yrs
Elizabeth : 8 yrs
William : 6 yrs
Richard : 3 yrs
Edward Sexton : Draper’s Assistant : 22 yrs
Elizabeth : 23 yrs
Henry J : 2 yrs
S A E : Dressmaker : 17 yrs
William White : Fish Salesman : 27 yrs
Ann : 25 yrs
Maria : 3 yrs
William : 1 yr
Richard ; 11 yrs
Julia : 9 yrs
1871 Census
Elizabeth Higgins : Laundress : 49 yrs
John W Nutter : General Labourer : 36 yrs
Eliza : General Servant : 16 yrs
19 Bath Square
1871 Census
William Farmidge : Retired Mariner : 66 yrs
Mary : Housekeeper : 55 yrs
Mary : 4 yrs
1881 Census
Christopher Pearson : Greengrocer : 52 yrs
Anne : 47 yrs
George North : Corporal, R E : 30 yrs
Elizabeth : 24 yrs
James H Clark : Sgt, 59th Regt : 29 yrs
Lilian M : Dressmaker : 22 yrs
Walter : 2 yrs
Luke Barron : Licensed Waterman : 53 yrs
1891 Census
Isaac Savage : Bargeman : 65 yrs
Ellen : 67 yrs

20 Bath Square
Customs Watch House
Stamford Mercury : Thursday 12 September 1723
We hear that very considerable seizures of wine and brandy have been lately made by the Customs House Officers about Portsmouth’
In this year Excise tax levied for coffee, tea and chocolate
The Waltham Black Acts adds 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
Stamford Mercury : Thursday 2 December 1725
Portsmouth Nov 25 : Last Sunday a Customs House waiter, that was placed on board a Dutch vessel in the harbour, observing an Anchor Brandy to be handed out of the ship into a Man o’ War’s boat, jumped down in the boat and seized it : upon which the boat put off a little from the vessel, and one of the crew threw it overboard, saying, “Let it go to the Devil.” Another of them cries out, “ Let the man go to the Devil after it,” and throws him also overboard ; and had not a Package Boat providently come by that instant, the man had certainly been drowned. The Anchor of Brandy was likewise taken up, and the officer seized the Man o’ War boat the next morning.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 28 December 1772
Tuesday last was brought to the Custom House, 100 bags of tea, which was seized the same evening near this place, by the Princess Caroline, Cutter, belonging to this port. And a few before, 30 bags of tea were brought in here by the same vessel
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 16 December 1776
On Monday died Mr William Baskerville, who had been near forty years tide-surveyer in the service of the Customs, at this port.
Salisbury and Winchester Journal : Monday 13 August 1781
On Thursday 16th of August, 1781, at two o’clock in the afternoon, will be exposed to public sale, at the Customs house at this port, the under mentioned goods, the same having been seized and legally condemned.
Brandy ... 900 gallons : Rum ... 73 Gallons : Geneva ... 845 Gallons : Coffee ... 206 Pounds : Irish Linen ... 170 Pieces .A parcel of red and white wine, Iron Moulds for castin bullets, striped cotton, printed linen, coals, a cart, and about six cwts of Salts, a Wherry and her materials, and a skiff with her oars.
Salisbury and Winchester Journal : Monday 17 December 1787
On Thursday the 20th of December, 1787, at ten o’clock in the morning, will be exposed to public sale, at the Custom House in this place, the undermentioned goods, the same having been seized and legally condemned, viz ;
Brandy ... 300 gallons ; Rum ... 1000 gallons ; Geneva ... 3000 gallons
The greatest part of the brandy and rum are of the strength of 1 in 6 and upwards under Hydrometer proof, and will be sold in large and small lots, for the accommodation of dealers and private persons.
Also to be sold, 26 dozen Hair Bottoms for Chairs, several boats and materials.
The goods above mentioned may be viewed and tasted at any time in proper hours (two days before the sale) by applying to the warehouse keeper.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 5 January 1789
A few days since was seized by the Thorn sloop of war, a smuggling lugger, named the Hazard, laden with fifteen hundred casks of spirits, a quantity of tobacco, and other articles, which were safely lodged in the Custom House here.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 5 November 1792
Whereas a burglary was committed in the Custom House of this port, in the night of the 2nd instant, or between the hours of one and half past two o’clock in the morning of the 3rd instant, by some person or persons unknown, who broke open three of the desks in the Long - Room, and took from one of the said desks about thirty nine pounds in cash, which they feloniously carried away. The Honourable Commissioners of his Majesty’s Customs, in order to bring the offenders to justice, do hereby offer a reward of fifty pounds, to any person or persons, who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be discovered and apprehended, any one of of the said offenders, to be paid by the Registrar General of his Majesty’s Customs, upon conviction.
Morning Post : Monday 21 September 1801
Sale of Wines and other goods which have lain in the Custom House warehouse, at Portsmouth, unentered, upward of twelve months, on Thursday, the 24th day of September, 1801 and be exposed to public sale at the custom hose in order to defray his Majesty’s duties.
About 15 pipes of wine : 44 hogsheads of ditto : 41 quarter casks of ditto : 1 hogshead rum : 3 cases of books and sculpture : 1 hogshead leaf tobacco : 6 boxes brandy : 1 cask coffee : 1 cask sugar candy : 2 leopard skins : 1 quarter cask oil : 1 box & 1 hamper liquors : 2 casks fish : 16 dozen bottles beer : 13 boxes candles : 80 bundles Russia matts.
Which goods may be viewed in proper hours, three days before the sale by applying to the warehouse keeper.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 13 February 1815
Last night, or very early this morning, a closet in the Long Room of the Custom House was broken open, by means of cutting away the woodwork about the lock, and a small brown bag, containing a sum of money to the amount of £500 and upwards, was stolen therefrom. A particular investigation of the circumstances was immediately set on foot, and not the least doubt is entertained but the theft was committed by some villain who contrived to secrete himself in the Customs House in the course of yesterday, as the doors were found fastened, as usual. Bills have been circulated, offering a reward of £50 for the apprehension of ther offender or offenders, and this afternoon a man was taken into custody, on suspicion of being concerned. A piece of bew rope was found hanging out of the window of the Collector’s office, with which, it is conjectured, the thief made his escape, and it is hoped this may facilitate the detection. It is remarkable that a centinel is constantly posted under the window where the rope was placed, who neither saw nor heard anything of the transaction.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 30 August 1819
Custom House
On Thursday the 9th of September, 1819, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, will be exposed to public sale, at this office, the following goods, the same having been seized and legally condemned, viz; India camel-hair shawls, shawl neckcloths, muslin, Nakeen, long cloth, fans, wine, brandy, rum, geneva, cordials, tea, sugar, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, sweetmeats, citron, preserves, pickles, perfumery, toys, skins, feathers, Inadin ink, corneliun, necklaces, bracelets, eardrops, and ornamental coats, angola shawls, gloves, wax candles, naples soap, &c., also two wherries and a skife, together with their materials, and likewise the broken-up hull of a large boat, and materials, and also four sails, returned from the Lively, tender to the Roebuck
Also for exportation - silk shawls, silk scarves, handkerchiefs, pieces of silk, pieces of crape, silk stockings, crape shawls, satin, gauze, Palempore &c.
The spirits cannot be sold for less than the amount of the several duties thereupon. The whole may be viewed on application to the Warehouse Keeper, three days previous to the sale
Dorset County Chronicle : Thursday 26 June 1828
Custom House, Portsmouth, by order of the Honorable the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Customs, to be sold by public auction at this office, on Thursday, the 26th June, 1828, at eleven o’clock, the following goods, which have been seized and legally condemned, viz., 108 gallons brandy, and 47 gallons Geneva, of sufficient strength for dealers; the broken-up hull and materials of the Elizabeth, of Portsmouth, and a quantity of staves for firewood. The whole may be viewed at the Custom House, two days before the sale, on application to the Warehouse Keeper.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 30 March 1829
Customs House, Portsmouth, by order of the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Customs, to be sold by public auction, at this office, on Thursday, April 2nd, 1829, at 12 o’clock, the following, which have been seized and legally condemned, the cutter, Two Partners, of Shoreham, 18 tons, skiff and materials ; the broken up hull of a tub boat, and a quantity of broken up half ankers. The same may be viewed on application at the Custom House.
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 1 November 1845
Death : This week, at Southsea, Mr Tasker, late of East Street, formerly for many years a faithful and an efficient custom house officer at Portsmouth, aged 76.
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 30 May 1846
Married at Kingston Church, Portsea, on the 25th instant, Mr John Larcom, gunner on H M Ship Excellent, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Mr Thomas Hearn, of H M Customs, Portsmouth
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 25 July 1846
Death : On the 19th instant, at Horth End, Portsea, Mr Nobes, of H M Custom House, Portsmouth, aged 33
1861 Census
John Ellis : Examining Officer of Customs : 49 yrs
Henry Board : Out Door, Officer of Customs : 34 yrs
Henry J Holt : Out door, Officer of Customs : 37 yrs
John Winn : Out Door, Officer of Customs : 45 yrs
1871 Census
James Hackett : Examining Officer : 48 yrs
Stan Alford : Out Door Examining Officer : 69 yrs
Charles Smith : Out Door Examining Officer : 36 yrs
Mark Hill : Out Door Examining Officer : 26 yrs
1881 Census
James Roche : Customs Examining Officer : 43 yrs
Samuel Christopher : Customs Boat Man : 27 yrs
John Wheeler : Customs Boat Man : 38 yrs
1901 Census
James Natt : Boatman, H M Customs : 40 yrs
John R Phillips : Boatman, H M Customs : 31 yrs
John Hill : Boatman, H M Customs
21 Bath Square
“Isle of Wight Tavern”
1861 Census
Robert A Foord : Licensed Victualler : 46 yrs
(1851 Robert Peck Foord was Ship’s Agent Clerk living with Martha in Bath Square; 1881 living at 64 Broad Street, widow, Clerk to shipping agent; 1891 living at 3 Gt Southsea St on his own means,76 yrs; died 1893 79 yrs).
Martha : 49 yrs
Fanny B : 16 yrs
T Arnedick : Gentleman : 26 yrs
Captain Ludvigson : Captain : 28 yrs
John Atkinson : Pilot : 49 yrs
Ann Bartlett : House Servant : 17 yrs
1871 Census
Robert Foord : Licensed Victualler : 55 yrs
Martha : 60 yrs
Fanny : 25 yrs
1881 Census
Robert Lims : Publican : 41 yrs
Emma : 37 yrs
Mary A : 17 yrs
William Payne : General Labourer : 47 yrs
James Royal : Tailor : 22 yrs
Nathan Frost : Private, Royal Marines : 23 yrs
David Kinnaird : Private, Royal marines : 29 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 21 February 1901
Dog Cart, rubber tyred, panel sided trap, new shafts.
Brougham, Hooded Park Phaeton, working order
Apply by letter - Hamilton, 21 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 26 June 1920
On Wednesday next at 6.30 pm King & King will sell by auction at their Property sale
Rooms, with vacant possession
21 Bath Square
being a three floored brick built store with spacious paved cellarage under
22 Bath Square
1871 Census
“East West Country House”
William H Hooper : Brass Finisher : 35 yrs
Jane : 19 yrs
William H : 7 months
23 Bath Square
1881 Census
William White : Fish Salesman : 46 yrs
Ann : 43 yrs
Maria : 23 yrs
William : 22 yrs
Henry J : Clerk at Railway Station : 20 yrs
Alfred : Carpenter’s Apprentice : 18 yrs
Ann : 16 yrs
Richard : 14 yrs
John : 12 yrs
Julia : 10 yrs
Jessie : 8 yrs
Kate : 6 yrs
Mabel : 3 yrs
Cassie : 1 yr
1891 Census
Unoccupied
1901 Census
William White : Fish Salesman : 41 yrs
Clarissa : 42 yrs
1911 Census
Richard Ernest White : Fish Auctioneer : 41 yrs
Martha : 40 yrs
William : Fish Auctioneer’s Clerk : 18 yrs
Lillian : Milliner : 16 yrs
Jessie : 14 yrs
Richard : 9 yrs
Mabel : 7 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 20 February 1923
Deaths : White - On the 16th inst., at 23 Bath Square, Martha Ann, the dearly beloved wife of Richard White, age 53, after long illness.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 16 September 1952
The Deputy City Coroner, Mr P D Childs, yesterday returned a verdict of “Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed” on a man who had made 18 attempts from the Germans during the war. The body of the deceased, Neville Herman Strange (38) of 23 Bath square was found hanging by a rope in the boathouse at Portsmouth Rowing Club on Friday.
25 Bath Square
1881 Census
Unoccupied
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 17 November 1939
Lost : Thursday afternoon, in Osborne Road, Lady’s Brown Tweed Cap, with gold naval crown brooch : Reward : 25 Bath Square
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 26 July 1940
Wanted - Young Nurse-Housemaid.
Apply 25 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 31 August 1942
Single Divan Bed. £12 10d ; dark oak hall wardrobe, £10 ; both as new.
Phone 74218 or call before 11am - 25 Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 5 April 1944
Taxi-driver Leslie Chester Cooper, 25 Bath Square, was fined £5 and his licence endorsed for two offences of exceeding the 20 mph speed limit.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 8 January 1952
Births : Barrett - On 19th December, 1951, to Rosemary (nee Shannons), wife of Peter Barrett of 25 Bath square, a daughter (Belinda Rosemary).
27 Bath Square
1901 Census
James R Wright : Carter, Dockyard : 27 yrs
Sarah J : 24 yrs
George J J : under 1 month
Frank Lovell : Fish Porter : 26 yrs
Kitty : 20 yrs
Willmore : Office Boy : 15 yrs
1911 Census
Frank Lovell : Fish Porter : 34 yrs
(1891, 16 yrs, living parents William (gen labourer) & Jane in 13 West St;).
Elizabeth C : 29 yrs
Frank : 8 yrs
Catherine F : 4 yrs
William W : 2 yrs
Harry Bullen : Private Royal Marines : 39 yrs
Rose : Midwife : 39 yrs
Rose Dorothy : 7 yrs
Ivy Irene : 3 yrs
Margaret Ada : 8 months
William Pike : Vegetable Cook : 29 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 30 March 1929
Monday 8th April 1929, Point, Old Portsmouth, sale of waterside freehoild property of special interest to boating men. Field and Palmer are instructed to sell by auction, the double-fronted freehold house, 27 Bath Square (at the corner of Bathing lane), with 4 bedrooms, 3 sitting rooms, kitchen, wash-house, yard, and side entrance. Let to Mr Lovell at 10s 5d per week, tenant paying water rate.
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 11 December 1953
Large Pram and canopy and baby clothes, £4 the lot. also two sml fitting Ladies’s Costumes. £4 10s and £2
27 Bath Square
Bath Square
1 Newman’s Cottages
1881 Census
Margaret Preston : Wool Worker : 38 yrs
William E : Barman : 19 yrs
Henry : 13 yrs
Walter : 10 yrs
Ernest : 7 yrs
Frederick : 3 yrs
Bath Square
2 Newman’s Cottages
1881 Census
Richard W Kemp : Waterman : 42 yrs
Mary J : Mangle Woman : 43 yrs
Minnie : 12 yrs
Bath Square
Navy Post Office
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 18 January 1851
Hours for delivery of letters - Winter: half past 7, morning; Summer: 7 morning ; afternoon, 3, all the year round. Office for unpaid and stamped letters.
Bath Square
Pickford’s Furniture Store
1881 Census
Unoccupied
Bath Square
Pickford’s Office
1881 Census
William Fermidge : In Charge of Pickford’s Stores : 56 yrs
Mary : 65 yrs
John Heatherman : Pickford’s Clerk : 64 yrs
Alfred Hare : General carpenter : 30 yrs
Walter Chapman : General Labourer : 37 yrs
George Goody : General Labourer : 42 yrs
Harry Root : General Labourer : 38 yrs

Bath Square
Quebec House
Hampshire History : hampshire-history.com
Gets it’s name from the Battle of Quebec fought in 1759. Built in 1754 by public subscription of local inhabitants as a bathing house.
The baths were connected to the sea via pipes and as the tide ran, the four baths were flushed with fresh sea water. The baths were of different depths and different sizes, with changing room sfor men and women.
It is famous for, in 1845 Quebec House was the place Captain Alexander Seton of the 11th Dragoons passed away as the reult of an injury he acquired whilst duelling with Lieutenant Henry Hawkley of the Royal Marines. Seton is thought to have been the last Englishman to have died as a result of a dual.
Sunday 7 May 2017, Quebec estimated value by Zoopla ...£1,976,000
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 19 September 1808
Portsmouth - For Public Sale
On Thursday the 22nd September 1808 at the Quebec Tavern, at Noon
Two or Three hundred load of prime Swedish Timber, from 10 to 14 inch
A quantity of 14feet 3 inch Deals
100 barrels of Stockholm Tar
28 Ditto Pitch
20 Large Sails
For catalogues, and viewing the same, apply to J Peters & Co, Merchants.
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser : Saturday 14 October 1809
To be sold by auction, at the West India and Quebec Tavern, Bath Square, on Monday, the 16th instant, at noon. The masts, yards, sails and stores, saved from the wreck of the ship Royal Edward, from Jamaica lately stranded off Selsey Bill.
For particulars apply to Mr P Grubb, Jamaica Coffee House; or Messrs Smith and Robinson, Ship Chandlers, &c., Portsmouth
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser : Monday 28 January 1811
At the Quebec Tavern on Friday , February 1
(unless previously disposed of by private contract)
The Good ship Apollo, 243 tons per register, built at Scarbro’, and wood sheathed, is a faithful well-built vessel, carries a large cargo, and well adapted for the transport service or any other trade her size might suit ; she is abundantly found with every description of stores. For inventories of which, and further particulars, apply to the Master on board, at the Gosport side of Portsmouth.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 24 May 1819
To be let by auction by Mr Crook, on the premises, on Thursday, the 27th day of May, 1819, at seven o’clock in the evening, subject to such conditions as shall there and then be produced - All that messuage anor dwelling house and premises situate, and being in Bath Square, and known by the name of the West India and Quebec Tavern, free for all kinds of beer, wine, and spirits for the term of three, five or seven years, from Midsummer next.
Also all those valuable premises adjoining, called the Bathing House, the same having lately undergone a complete repair, and fitted up in the most convenient manner for hot and cold baths, with dressing rooms &c..
Further particulars may be know on application to Mr Pearce, Solicitor, St George’s Square, Portsea.
Birmingham Chronicle : Thursday 31 March 1825
Between Portsmouth and Ryde, Isle of Wight
the commodious and fast going Steam Packet, Union, of Portsmouth.
Captain Groves will commence performing the passage between the above places, on 3rd April next; she will leave the former place every day at the hours of8. 10.3 and 6, and the latter at the hours of 9, 12, 5 and 7, making the passage in half an hour; she is fitted up very conveniently with three cabins, and passengers will meet with every possible attention.
Quarter Deck and After cabins - 1s 6d : Forecastle & Fore-cabin 1s
NB - Goods and parcels booked at the Quebec Tavern, Bath Square, and at the Pier Hotel, Ryde. The owners will not be answerable for any goods and parcels, unless booked at one of the said places.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 6 August 1859
To be sold or let, with immediate possession, the Quebec Hotel and Tavern, situate in Bath Square, for many years occupied by the late Mr Hale, but now occupied by his widow, who, from failing health, desires to quit business.
The house stands on the shore at the entrance of the harbour, commanding an uninterrupted sea view, and from its situation is admirably adapted for carrying on an extensive business in connexion with passengers by packets and other ships, besides being attractive to visitors. The Quebec Hotel is an old established house, in which for many years, a good trade has been maintained.
The premises may be viewed by leave of Mrs Hale, the tenant, and other particulars, may be ascertained on application to Mr C B Hellard, Solicitor, Portsmouth.
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 30 March 1861
Quebec Hotel, Bath Square
Marvin & King, having disposed of the above hotel, are instructed by Mrs Hale, to sell by auction, on the premises, on Tuesday April 9th, 1861, and following days, commencing at 12 o’clock each day, the whole of the equipment, comprising, the contents of 20 bed chambers, in mahogany and neat Japan suites, including four post, French, and Iron Arabian Bedsteads, horse-hair and other mattresses, excellent feather beds, blankets, counterpanes, chests of drawers, washing and dressing tables, sets of toilet ware, toilet glasses, hip and other baths, bedsteps, &c &c..
The contents of 8 sitting rooms, coffee and smoking rooms, amongst which will be found, mahogany secretaire book-case, enclosed sideboard, sofas, couches, sets of chairs, easy chairs, dining, centre, card, coffee room, and other tables, dial, pictures, 6.5 octave cabinet pianoforte, in rosewood case, square pianoforte &c..
The fittings of bar, bar parlour, kitchen &c., Cottage mangle, large quantity of superior linen, services of china and glass, about 300 ounces of silver plate, town plated articles, cutlery &c., cellar of choice wines, including some fine old Port, of rae vintage; also the whole of the valuable fixtures, including bath, force pump, cisterns, ranges, registered, elliptic, and other stoves,, bells, gas fittings, meter, dressers, cupboards, partitioning &c &c..
Catalogues of the whole are preparing and may be had (6d each) of the auctioneers 148 Queens Street, after the 6th of April, or on the premises the day preceeding the morning of sale, when the effects may be viewed.
1861 Census
James Constance : Gentleman : 27 yrs
Mary Jacobs : 30 yrs
William Richards : House Porter : 25 yrs
Jane Bert : Housemaid : 23 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 25 January 1900
Found : St Bernard Bitch. Owner can have same by paying expenses.
Matthews. Quebec House, Bath Square.
1901 Census
Thomas B Matthews : Master Mariner : 61 yrs
Emily : 59 yrs
Harry : Clerk, Commercial : 28 yrs
Laura : 25 yrs
Cedris Shirra : 13 yrs
Freda Kuchurich : Finishing Governess, School : 26 yrs
Vera E Baxendale : 12 yrs
Eliza Lefly : Kitchenmaid : 20 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 13 December 1902
Death : On the 12th inst., at Quebec House, Bath Square, Thomas Lacey, dearly beloved husband of Emily Matthews, aged 62. After a long and painful illness of cancer in the tongue. Friends please keep this the only intimation.
London Daily News : Tuesday 12 June 1906
Bedroom and Breakfast wanted fortnight, 5 minutes from Strand. Moderate.
E., Quebec House, Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 12 June 1906
Lost : A green parrot with red beak, lost Sunday last. Finder rewarded bring to Quebec House, Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 26 March 1929
For Sale - Dynamo, Crompton, switchboard, and 12 Edison batteries ; also 17 ft motor launch ; all in good condition ; offers. - Quebec House, Bath square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 5 February 1932
Sir, - I should like to state through your paper how I appreciated (and I am sure all the shilling supporters did likewise) the decision of the Directors of the Portsmouth FC not to raise the price of the shilling gate for the Arsenal match.
Although the rumours were circulated everywhere, I myself feel confident that the “sporting” element which we all know exists among our Directors, would predominate, and I feel sure that everyone will think of this and still roll up to Fratton Park when things might not be quite so rosy for the club.
G W Cole. Quebec House, Bath Square
Bath Square
Seaman & Mariner’s Orphan School
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail : Saturday 24 October 1840
The Hon Admiral Bouverie, the Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, has been unanimously elected President of the Seamen’s and Mariner’s Orphan School at Portsmouth
Morning Advertiser : Monday 1 March 1841
At the paying-off her Majesty’s Ship Satellite, the Seaman and Mariner’s School, Bath Square, received £4 11s 10d from the ship’s company
Hampshire Chronicle : Saturday 16 October 1847
On Wednesday the anniversary meeting of the Portsmouth and Portsea Seamen and Marines Orphan School was held at the Guildhall, Vice-Admiral A Ommanney KCB in the chair. The expenses for the year have been £337 18s 7d and there are now on the books 91 children. Since the last anniversary, four boys have been fitted out for sea, three sent to Greenwich, and three girls placed in respectable service, and each supplied with everything necessary as an outfit. The building is progressing most favourably, and now amounts to £1004 5s 9d, all of which is funded with the exception of £61 19s 6d in the hands of Messrs Grant & Co, £50 having been presented by Lord Egremont, during the last few days; there is also an endowment fund of £64 7s 8d. The kindness of Mr Alderman Lucas towards these children has shown itself in many ways previously, and in a letter recently received, he has expressed his attention to present to each monitor, on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. He also £100 towards the building fund.
The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev J P McGhie, and was addressed by Captain Chads, Major Calamy, Captain Sayer, and the Rev Messrs Cooper and Cottenham. Among the other gentlemen present were Col Mercer, Capt Lawrence, Capt Cracroft RN, Major Moore, the Rev Dr Austen, and the Rev Mr Barton. Lord Frederick Clarence was present for a short time, and presented a donation of £5, and signified his intention of becoming an annual subscriber of £2. Admiral Sherriff was elected vice-president in the place of Admiral Parker, and the following gentlemen were appointed to the vacancies in the committee ; Sir Edward Parry, Capt Yates, of the Victory, Captain Milner RN, Lieut Cochran RH, Lieut Jones RN.
Bath Square
Union Cottage
1891 Census
Sophia Nield : Needlewoman : 83 yrs
Eliza Bernthal : Seamstress : 67 yrs
1901 Census
Emily Harcus : Corset Maker : 28 yrs
Louisa Montague : Nurse : 70 yrs
Walter Lovell : Labourer, General : 32 yrs
1911 Census
Walter Lovell : Carrier’s Storeman : 41 yrs
Emily Harcus : 48 yrs
Louisa Montague : 85 yrs
Bath Square
“Coal Exchange”
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 16 December 1848
William Woods, was convicted of an assault on Sarah Sargeant, the landlady of the “Coal Exchange” at Point on the 14th instant, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 10s and 9s costs or 10 days’ imprisonment. Paid.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 13 February 1858
Francis Baker, keeper of the “Coal Exchange”, Bath Square, was convicted of opening his licensed house for the reception of persons not being travellers, during morning Divine Service, on Sunday last, and was fined £2 and costs or 21 days imprisonment.
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 9 October 1916
Boy wanted, just left school. Hours 10am to 2pm, 6pm to 8pm
Apply Coal Exchange, Bath Square.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 6 March 1923
Hotel Servants - Smart and willing girl, used to bar and housework. Wilkins, Coal Exchange, Bath Square.
Bath Square
“East & West Country House
1861 Census
Sarah J Leverett : Victualler : 41 yrs
Eliza E Hall : 32 yrs
Elizabeth : 1 yr
Rebecca Durham : 49 yrs
John Egan : Seaman, RN : 40 yrs
Thomas Cameron : Bumboat man : 26 yrs
Ellen : 21 yrs
1871 Census
George White : Fish Salesman : 51 yrs
Sarah : Licensed Victualler : 52 yrs
Julia : Assistant : 16 yrs
John : 10 yrs
Albert : 8 yrs
William : 3 yrs
George : Fish Salesman : 30 yrs
Ellen : 25 yrs
Ellen : 4 yrs
Bath Square
“New York Tavern”
1861 Census
John Smith : Victualler : 31 yrs
Harriett : 30 yrs
William Harvey : 6 yrs
Mary Skeams : 16 yrs
Elizabeth Butcher : Housekeeper : 55 yrs
Robert : Waterman : 32 yrs
Richard : Waterman : 30 yrs
William : Waterman : 23 yrs
Henry : Waterman : 21 yrs
James : waterman : 18 yrs
Joseph : Waterman : 15 yrs
Matthias R Leverett : Mariner, Yacht : 25 yrs
Ann : 25 yrs
Laura : 3 yrs
Mariene : 1 yr
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 27 March 1869
John Henry Francks, the landlord of the “New York Tavern” in Bath Square was charged with having his house open for the sale of drink after the hour of one o’clock on the 18th instant. Convicted and fined 20s, including costs which was at once paid.
1881 Census
Malkin Williams : Publican & Tailor : 45 yrs
Mary : 51 yrs
Malkin : 9 yrs
Sarah R : 7 yrs
Robert Guended : Butcher : 24 yrs
Walter Ring : Merchant Sea Captain : 34 yrs
Emily Penfold : General Servant : 19 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 20 November 1883
On Wednesday next, at twelve o’clock, New York Tavern, Bath Square.
Loader & Son are instructed by Mr Williams to sell by auction, the whole of the household furniture, being the contents of five bedrooms, tap-room, smoking room including a large sized solid mahogany smoking room table. On view morning of sale.
1891 Census
“late “New York Tavern”
Harriet Williams : General Shopkeeper : 28 yrs
John : 7 yrs
John Hubbard : Dyer : 39 yrs
Elizabeth : 44 yrs
Joseph Jester : General Labourer : 28 yrs
Mary : 30 yrs
Margaret : 8 yrs
Jane Ashley : Hawker : 30 yrs
George : 10 yrs
Carrie : 6 yrs
John : 4 yrs
Samuel : 2 yrs
Mary Hayes : General Servant : 26 yrs
Jane : General servant : 26 yrs
Bath Square
“Still Tavern”
1881 Census
William Long : Retired Sailor, Royal Navy and Publican : 59 yrs
Elizabeth : 55 yrs
James Main : Waterman : 34 yrs
Elizabeth B : 32 yrs
George B : 4 yrs
Lily B : 8 yrs
Alice Hollins : Marine Engine Driver’s Wife : 29 yrs
Harry : 8 yrs
R H : 4 yrs
Ada E : 2 yrs
Mabel : 4 months
Robert Elkins : Waterman : 62 yrs
Louisa : 59 yrs
1891 Census :
Premises not individually identified
James Main : Publican : 44 yrs
Elizabeth A : 41 yrs
Lilly Brown : Dressmaker : 18 yrs
George : Boat Builder : 14 yrs
Emma : General Servant : 18 yrs
Edward Long : Seaman Gunner, RN : 33 yrs
1901 Census
George Browne : Shipwright, Dockyard : 24 yrs
George J Long : Gunner, RN : 45 yrs
Emily : 49 yrs
Lily E P Browne : 28 yrs
John L Hill : Clerk, Fish Salesman : 23 yrs
Charles E Slape : Mariner : 23 yrs
Nellie Ross : Servant : 22 yrs
George Feben : Fisherman : 45 yrs
Daniel Jacobs : Blacksmith : 71 yrs
Annie : 49 yrs
1911 Census
“Still & West Country House”
Thomas Edward Paisley : Publican : 41 yrs
Amy Lizzie Seaddon : Housekeeper : 46 yrs
Thomas : Late Coachman : 74 yrs