Public houses and street names

Public houses have always played an important part in the history of Portsmouth. This is even reflected in local street names: White Horse Lane (earliest reference 1676), running between the High Street and St Thomas’s Street, was named after the White Horse Golden Lion Lane (earliest reference 1716) was named after the Golden Lion White Hart Row, now road, (earliest reference 1811), named after the White Hart Fighting Cocks Lane (now Pembroke Road) was called after the Fighting Cocks which stood on the corner of this road and the High Street. In 1952, eighteen Fulham ware mugs were excavated from this site.