Located on the corner of Cressy Place, amidst the terraces of old Landport, this pub started life as the Brewers Arms and was part of a small tied estate belonging to Thomas Allen of the nearby Buckland [Steam] Brewery. The company was later taken over by Young’s Brewery (Portsmouth) and the pub renamed the Queen Alexandra in 1934. The original tavern (shown in the photograph) was demolished in the early 1960s and a replacement pub constructed in its place. The new house was purchased by Ind Coope’s Guildford subsidiary, Friary Meux, however the replacement pub was very short-lived, being closed and demolished in 1971, when most of the terraced streets were swept away for redevelopment. The pub’s footprint now stands in the heart of the rundown Buckland Estate, roughly midway along Duke Crescent.
