Photo above: The Albion can be seen on the second corner, the Stockdale Arms is on the first, in the foreground.
Notes from the deeds of the Albion give the owners and mortgagers: on 16 March 1839, James Thorp paid £220.16 for the site. The site was described as 299yds, b/se (78ft) by Dunkirk St (new), b/sw (28ft 9ins) by Albion Hill.
On 4th April 1842, mortgaged to Elizabeth Davis, together with three lately erected messuages.
17th January 1868, sold to John Long for £930, described as nos 11,13,15 Dunkirk St, together with the Albion Inn.
14th October 1881, sold to William Langmore & Samuel Nevins Bankhart (Brewers), for £1500.
2nd February 1897, sold to All Saints Brewery Company Ltd.
On the Albion’s closing, it was sold to F V West for £870, on 25th of June 1923.
Three months later on the 21st of September 1923, merchant F. M. George bought the ex-Albion for £1200. The Council purchased the site on 5th of October 1949 for £2500.
