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Picture source: Barry Taylor

The Queensland Tavern was situated on Exmoor Road and is now used as a private house.

I saw that being turned into a private house back in March.  I went in there once about 1982-3.  Certainly, it was/is in a 'rough'/'lively' area, but it's all part of the 'character' isn't it - we're all the poorer for its loss - put it down to a combination of local demographics (religious bias against booze), police intolerance, trendier student watering-holes up the road,  post-Thatcherism, cheap supermarket booze (I'm as guilty as the rest), and a prime minister who's a son of the manse: 'No more booze and bust!'

Simon Crook

This pub seems to have closed around 2009. This is the 'red light' district of town and has a large Asian, Polish community. The old wall plaque for the pub is still there, but some of the letters are now missing (sad). My old beer guide says it had 'recorded music', 'public bar', 'Darts', 'parking difficult' and that it had Whitbread Pompey Royal on electric pump. Kelly's directory of 1898/1911/1920 has Charles Copeland as the Landlord.

Barry Taylor (August 2011)

My parents (Gwen and Alan Moore) moved into this pub as managers for Brickwoods who owned it for a little while longer before being brought from them by Whitbreads, my parents stayed on till 1974 when they moved. Whilst we where there dad chucked a load of "ladies of the night" out on his first night but did over the years build up a great relationship with many of the locals religions. The pub was just 200yds down the road from RSH hospital so was always a drinking pub for the porters. They had a darts team and one night a player had a heart attack on the oche. To save time 2 porters put him on a chair and ran him up to a&e, he survived but the porters and dad we told off for not getting an ambulance.

Ian Moore (February 2020)

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Picture source: Bob Pearce