RAISE your glasses to the memory of another pair of Southampton’s pubs which have long since departed from the face of the city.

As the old has made way for the new so much of the past now only remains recorded in fading photographs.

One person keen on these old images of city pubs is Dave Goddard from Nursling, an avid collector of Southampton memorabilia, who has kindly supplied Hampshire Heritage with these photographs of two old Southampton haunts from taken from his book ‘Southampton’s Lost Pubs’.

These days a car showroom now stands on the site of the Old Shirley Brewery Tap at the busy junction of Romsey Road and Winchester Road in the city.

Built in the early part of the 19th century as the tap bar for the nearby Old Shirley Brewery which then belonged to brewers Barlow and Clode, the pub was later taken over by the Winchester Brewery before closing up just before the start of the First World War after it was refused a licence and forced to cease trading.

As a result the brewery received £1,114 12s in compensation.

The Old Shirley Brewery Tap was not far from the Old Thatched House Inn in Romsey Road.

The Sawyer’s Arms that once stood in Nelson Road in the Freemantle area. Dating back to the 1850s it was destroyed by enemy bombs during a Second World War air raid in which the landlord and landlady were both killed.

After the debris of the pub was cleared away the site was used to build prefabs. According to archives one earlier landlord was fined ten shillings (50p) by local magistrates after being found guilty of being drunk in charge of a horse and cart.

Next week: The Bridge Inn in Freemantle.

Any readers with old photographs or memories of the Bridge Inn can contact Jez Gale on 023 8042 4478 or at jez.gale@dailyecho.co.uk