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The Alex, as it's known locally, has always
been a bit of a mystery to me. It is a very large building purported
to have been built c1830 but I can only find records of a landlord
from 1871. It may have been named after Queen Alexandra (1844-1925),
wife of Edward VII. It was built as a hotel to accommodate the growing influx of tourists from London wanting to spend time at the seaside with the advent of train travel in the mid 1840's to Worthing. Despite its location some distance from the high street in a then underdeveloped area, we can clearly see in the old pictures a bus timetable on the wall. It is thought to have been remodelled in 1898. Notice in the later picture below the corner door has gone. |
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This is Margaret Benn, landlady of the Alexandra pub in 1984. She made the local news as the lady running an all-woman staff pub. "in this trade, sex equality is quite a good thing. A woman brings a family atmosphere and she can be a very good listener." Margaret took
over the business last year after the death of her husband Ronald.
For three years towards the end of the 70s the couple ran the Ham
pub in Lyndhurst Road. |
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