Alexandra Road

Long before Alexandra Road was planned Furze Hill Lane, as it then was, ran down from the top end of Mutley to Lipson House, which even until the beginning of the twentieth century occupied a large site encompassing the area that is now bounded by part of Lipson Road, Savery Terrace and Edgar Terrace.

Alexandra Road itself was cut in 1863, the year that the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) married the strikingly attractive eighteen year-old Alexandra, eldest daughter of King Kristian IX of Denmark.

A popular princess, she engaged in much charity work and as Queen in 1902 she founded the Imperial (now Royal) Military Nursing Service. Ten years later she instituted the annual Alexandra Rose Day in aid of our hospitals.