Admin Asst and Senior Site Moderator. Forum Rules. It was later used as a Royal Navy Hostel , possibly because of its nature when open! Join Date Aug Location W. Re: Pubs in Portsmouth you would find a prostitute in WW2 I drink with Navy People every first thursday of the month during Happy Hour , there are two recent newcomers to site about the same time as me last August man and wife , both ex Navy, and look a lot younger than me , although I spent quite a bit of time in Portsmouth after the first pub I cant remember the names of such.
I can probably get a list of most pubs the Navy drank at if I ask them. One I used to start off in I only think it was called the Castle but may be wrong. Portsmouth was a military town so had numerous pubs. Re: Pubs in Portsmouth you would find a prostitute in WW2 As regards Houses or pubs of ill repute the American occupation Authoritys in Japan in the 50s had the best way of handling the disease and crime wave that usually follows in the steps of large military groups.
The many thousands of pubs in japan that catered for foreigners outside of themselves were issued with an A or B licence. The Japanese kept to their own bars and were usually marked Japanese ownly, how would that go down today with all these weird groups, The others bars if they were marked B were not for american troops , and if found in same by shore patrols finished up in the lock up. They had been found out by doctors not to be issued with a clean bill of health or crime had been committed on their premises.
The A bars were issued with a clean bill of health. This was on every door of these pubs and I doubt it was very few Merchant seamen noticed. Those that did know like myself always made for The B bars as knew there would be no troops there and the prices would not be exorbidant for the beer.
If a shore patrol came in we showed our passes and as were civilians they had no civil authority over us and left.
