Fancy a pint? Some of Southampton s oldest pubs we can t wait to get back to WITH a road map for easing restriction due on Monday and the hope we will soon be able to visit pubs again, the Daily Echo looks at some of the area’s oldest boozers. These long-serving watering holes have been refreshing the palates of patrons for decades and even centuries in Southampton. The Red Lion pub is one of Britain’s oldest buildings and steeped in history. King Henry V made it the scene of one of the most famous trials in the country when he used its “court room” to try three men accused of trying to assassinate him. The conspirators were found guilty and executed outside Southampton’s Bargate.