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ROYAL ENGINEER OFFICE
Portsmouth, May 3rd, 1866,
WAR DEPARTMENT PROPERTY.
TO BE LET, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,—“THE COACH AND HORSES” PUBLIC HOUSE, Hilsea, situated on the London Road, about 3 miles from Portsmouth, with good Stabling, Skittle-ground, large Garden, and all necessary Outbuildings.
The Conditions and Forms of Tender for renting the above, may be obtained from the Superintendent of the War Office Property, Royal Engineer Office, Portsea, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between the hours of Eleven and Four o’clock, to the 22nd of May, 1866, which are to be filled up and forwarded by post to the Director of Contracts, War Office, Pall Mall, on or before the 25th of May, 1866, marked in the left-hand corner of the envelope “Tender for Public House, Hilsea”
G. C. DOWNMAN, Superintendent.
— Hampshire Telegraph, Saturday 05 May 1866 source
It seems likely that this is the point when Lucy Neat and her family relinquish the property.