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Picture source: Bob Bates

The Royal Albert was situated at 23 Marlborough Road. This pub closed in 1970 and was demolished to make way for a car park.

I was brought up in this great pub from 1947 until it was closed in 1970. Bill and Dot then moved to the Rising Sun in Fareham.  I can always remember going to sleep to the sound of the piano being played in the public bar, and my father calling out 'Last orders please' and 'Don't you have any homes to go to?' The locals used to shout 'Bill Meek, your beer's weak' The milkman used a shire horse to pull the cart, and my mother used to make me hurry out with bucket and spade to pick up the 'droppings', for my father's allotment. We had a boat on the Millbrook Point, and my father built a cabin on it. Great memories.

Carol Gretton

This small back street pub started life as a beer house in 1859, with James White as the landlord. It belonged to Alderidges Bedford brewery before transferring to Brickwoods brewery in the early 1900’s.The pub was granted a full licence on 8th March 1960 and closed on 24th March 1970, being subsequently demolished with the rest of the properties in the road to make way for a car park, to meet the needs of Shirley High Street.

Bob Bates (November 2013)

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