Albert Street, Albert Public House

HER Number:
15656

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Albert Street, Albert Public House

Place:
Shieldfield

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Bought by Fitzgeralds in 1926 for £2,250. Newcastle's Chief Constable and the city's licensing bench thought that 27 licensed premises in Shieldfield was excessive. Shieldfield covered 46 acres and had 6,600 inhabitants. The 27 licences worked out at one licence for every 244 people. Newcastle as a whole had 1 licence for every 503 people. So four pubs (including the Albert) and six beerhouses in Shieldfield were closed in 1927.

Easting:
425600

Northing:
564500

Grid Reference:
NZ425600564500

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1996, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two - The North and East, p 16