Sunday, 5 August 2012

Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road

Former location of Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The Alexandra Inn stood on the corner of Montague Street and Lower Broughton Road, a site which is still there today marked by this tree at the corner of Heath Avenue.  The beerhouse opened in the 1860s, becoming a Groves & Whitnall house which passed to Greenall Whitley's before its closure in 1976.  The Alexandra had been spared from the original Lower Broughton clearance area.  However, a public enquiry sealed its fate in 1974 [2], and rather than a boozer, this tree now serves the new population.


Former location of Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
2. Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).

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