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Tollgate Road, SALISBURY, SP1 2JP

On Tollgate Road. Also known as the Railway Inn. It was adjacent to the coal drops at the now-closed Milford railway goods depot and this probably gave rise to the 'dust' in its name.

A suitable image greets all patrons of the pub. See Image] for a wider view.

Or is it? A case of split personality perhaps if you look at the other side of this pub occupying a narrow angle at the junction of Tollgate Road and Blakey Road. See Image

A pub with two names? Opposite the pub to the left was the old Milford railway goods station (now a small industrial estate), so hence the railway connection. Perhaps it was also a noticeably sooty part of town too? See Image] for a closer look at the image above the door, and Image] for a side view.

Having grown up with The Pub with No Name http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/799234 I now find a hostelry with two http://thedusthole.vpweb.co.uk/ Put them together, divide by two and you have the number of names most pubs have- one!

A pub with two names! The Railway Inn, on Tollgate Road, opened in 1847, immediately opposite the site of Salisbury’s first Railway station. Less than ten years later however, the station was moved across town, to its present location which left the Railway Inn to serve as an ordinary pub for the railwaymen and others who worked the large Milford Goods Yard. The nickname “The Dusthole” probably arose because of the dust created from the coal drops along the north side of Blakey Road where the Salisbury coal merchants used to store their coal, after unloading it from the railway wagons. Also, the cattle drovers, used to head along this road raising a lot of dust, until it was finally surfaced with tarmac. Add that the dusty clothing of the patrons and the black smoke from the old steam locos and you can see why it got its nickname. After a few years it was never called anything else but “The Dusthole” and its official name sank into obscurity. Finally, in 1976 the pubs brewers had “The Dusthole” registered as a second official name and it became the first pub in England to have two names (http://www.milfordstreetbridgeproject.org.uk/content/places/pubs/the-railway-innthe-dusthole-the-pub-with-two-names The Milford Street Bridge Project).

The college was established in 2014 and opened in temporary accommodation. However the college moved into this new purpose-built building on Tollgate Road in May 2016 (http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/12966916.Sixth_form_college_given_final_approval_for_purpose_built_facility/ Salisbury Journal).

Southampton Road heading towards College Roundabout.

Looking along Southampton Road in Salisbury with an Esso petrol station in view.

The River Avon as it flows through Salisbury.