Prince Albert, Pub?
 

Was looking through this Northumberland Directory (1855?) on the book archive website:

"History, topography, and directory of Northumberland, &c."

It has a Prince Albert (Ralph Graham) listed in "Hotels and Public Houses" for Amble.
Anyone familiar with that one?


https://archive.org/stream/historyto...e/712/mode/2up

1851 Census - no subscription atm, Janwhin ?

1851:
Ralph Graham, (53) born 1798, "Pensioner East India Company Serv"


1861:
Ralph Graham, (63) "Labourer and Pensioner East India Co"
Blue Bell Row, (last entry before Togston Square listings)

This rang bell all of a sudden: Janwhin already put this 1855 list up in 2012:

[But no extra info on Graham.]


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/ambl...t=ralph+graham

This must have been the name (for a time) of the building that stood on the site of the Garage on Albert Street, next to the Blue Bell? (or was that the Railway hotel??)

Anyway. Map of the end of Bede Street / Albert Street (Dole office building not yet built)

Three buildings immediately north of the Blue Bell site?:

Railway Hotel is/was the Fourways

I think the fourways was the Station Hotel hollydog, and still a few decades in the future.

Have a look at this 1864 map and you'll see the Railway Hotel in Albert Street, nothing yet on the east side of Bridge Street. (or even Cross Street for that matter)


http://maps.nls.uk//view/102346335

With Graham living in Bluebell row 1851-61 you could be forgiven for assuming the Prince Albert was the Railway Hotel, but as they are both in the 1855 list they must be separate buildings?

Alnwick Mercury1 March 1858:
"Public House to Let. The Prince Albert Inn, Amble. Apply to Mr G Cockburn, Angel Brewery, Alnwick."

At the 1861 census there's a Hugh Marshall shoemaker and innkeeper on Bluebell Row. Seems to be lately arrived from Wooler, looking at the children's births.
The other innkeeper on Bluebell Row was Charles Young who I think we already have listed?

I think Charles Young may have had the Masons.




I've updated the page on the other site with the Prince Albert and added the missing photo of the Steamboat Inn.

(2009 when we made that page? good heavens how time flies)

It would be nice to know the Prince Albert's location. It might have neighboured the Railway Hotel? On the 25 inch map it does look like there are three buildings in that short terrace that must contain the Railway Hotel.

If you look at the Schooner and Harbour Inns on this map they are pretty substantial buildings. I would think the Railway was the only occupier of that block opposite top of what would become Bede Street. The block further south, running into Acklington Street with what would be the Masons, seems to me to be the candidate to house the Prince Albert.
When did Bluebell Row become Albert Street?

Earliest newspaper reference I can find for 'Albert Street' is 1869, the sale of the Queen's Head and a dwelling in 'Albert Street'.

Blue Bell Row still gets the odd mention after this in readers' letters.