An anonymous ratepayer writing to the Hampshire Telegraph in 1869 gave the following hair-raising description of St Mary's Street:
of 'the seventy-four houses, seven are occupied by licensed victuallers, sixteen are beer houses, fourteen are licensed refreshment houses, whilst nearly all the houses in the many courts and alleys adjoining are rented by beer-house keepers and let in rooms to the unfortuante wretches who frequent their vile dens... One scoundrel has the audacity to call his house the 'Infant School' (due to the age of the girls supplied there).
For more read the excellent Portsmouth Paper 38, Public Houses and Beerhouses in Nineteenth Century Portsmouth by Riley and Eley.
of 'the seventy-four houses, seven are occupied by licensed victuallers, sixteen are beer houses, fourteen are licensed refreshment houses, whilst nearly all the houses in the many courts and alleys adjoining are rented by beer-house keepers and let in rooms to the unfortuante wretches who frequent their vile dens... One scoundrel has the audacity to call his house the 'Infant School' (due to the age of the girls supplied there).
For more read the excellent Portsmouth Paper 38, Public Houses and Beerhouses in Nineteenth Century Portsmouth by Riley and Eley.
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