Former pub to be bulldozed (From Daily Echo)
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Lord Palmerston pub in Southampton to be bulldozed
6:10am Tuesday 12th April 2011 in News
Lord Palmerston, Southampton
THE owners of a boarded-up city centre pub in Southampton are to bulldoze it for flats after failing to find a new tenant.
The Wellington Pub Company, which owns The Lord Palmerston, in Palmerston Road, plans to build a three-storey block of five flats in its place.
The pub was run by popular city landlord Steve Dockrell, 55, who died suddenly from meningitis two years ago.
His company, Dockrell Leisure Ltd, which also ran The Hobbit in Bevois Valley Road and Frog and Frigate in Canute Road, went bust last year.
The Wellington Pub Company, which owns 850 largely freehold pubs, took The Lord Palmerston off the market at the end of last year to review their options.
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Comments(9)
TheLandlord
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6:57am Tue 12 Apr 11
Just another reader
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7:38am Tue 12 Apr 11
Lucius Curtis
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7:51am Tue 12 Apr 11
Big Mac
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8:46am Tue 12 Apr 11
G0Rf
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1:27pm Tue 12 Apr 11
what about the recruitment agency next door?
they have got signs up on the window saying they have just moved out....
are they going to be knocking that bit down too?
G0Rf
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1:27pm Tue 12 Apr 11
what about the recruitment agency next door?
they have got signs up on the window saying they have just moved out....
are they going to be knocking that bit down too?
SpittingFire
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7:37pm Tue 12 Apr 11
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n sometimes they're rife!
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The oddity of Wellington selling out Lord Palmerston... bit creepy that.
SpittingFire
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7:39pm Tue 12 Apr 11
Lucius Curtis wrote:Lucius Curtis, sad to see Dockrell's small empire has been disbanded like this, to make way for some poky flats.
The frog & frigate is still closed. Such a shame, had some great nights there in the past. If they also pulled that down to make flats, I'd be really disappointed
meltdown says...
6:31am Tue 12 Apr 11
ts is it in Southampton?