How Did Southern Quay Get Its Start?
The short version of how a card room and kitchen came to sit above the old wharf reserve on High Street.
Why Open a Card Room by the Old Wharf?
“Somebody had to do something with the old wool store” is roughly how the founder tends to explain it, when asked directly, which does not happen often.
The building had sat empty for the better part of a decade before Southern Quay opened, used mostly for storage and, briefly, as a workshop for a boat repairer who never quite got the lease sorted.
The house kept the tall windows and the loading doors facing the reserve, and built the kitchen and the card room around them rather than knocking anything through.

Southern Quay, Before and After





