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I had a stroll down Albert Road this week and I saw this boarded up building, it looks like an old pub but I cant find any reference in my books that it was one, could it have just been a beer off? come shop, you can see the last licensee of the building.

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It was indeed a shop / beer-off during the 60's and 70s Tozzin, I used it often, but as to whether it was ever a pub I wouldn't know.

Don't know when it closed either but I've a feeling it was a long time ago.

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The beer off probably closed about 30-35 years ago. It was never a pub though. When I was at school one of my friends lived in the houses behind it, but the houses were demolished about the same time I think.

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The reason I thought "Pub" was because of the large window, it looks like a best room window and it is a bit high for a shop window for people to look into especially children.

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The reason I thought "Pub" was because of the large window, it looks like a best room window and it is a bit high for a shop window for people to look into especially children.

Good point.

Shame it's in such a state. Potentially a very attractive building.

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Good point.

Shame it's in such a state. Potentially a very attractive building.

I totally agree with you Vox but at least someone is living there, it looks like flats.

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I have checked the Census Records for 1911 back to 1891 can not find anything earlier but at that time it points to it being a Grocers.

1911 Census John Clarkson Boulby Grocer 158 Albert Road

1901 Census John C Boulby Grocer Shopkeeper 160 Albert Road No158 Listed

1891 Census Eliza Jane Brock Grocer 158 Albert Road. No 160 Listed

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I have checked the Census Records for 1911 back to 1891 can not find anything earlier but at that time it points to it being a Grocers.

1911 Census John Clarkson Boulby Grocer 158 Albert Road

1901 Census John C Boulby Grocer Shopkeeper 160 Albert Road Number 158 Listed

1891 Census Eliza Jane Brock Grocer 158 Albert Road. Number 160 not Listed

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I never used many pubs in that area but I remember one known as the "Round House" which had a similar frontage?

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There is a similar shop at the bottom of Shirebrook Road that was Mini Bitz for many years. I'm pretty sure that was a grocers too.

The area has a total lack of pubs though, it was the Crown, Red Lion, White Lion one way and the Waggon & Horses or the Roundhouse (out of bounds to us as under 18s because my best mate's mum worked behind the bar) the other.

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There is a similar shop at the bottom of Shirebrook Road that was Mini Bitz for many years. I'm pretty sure that was a grocers too.

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The 1894, 1906 but not the 1923 OS maps show it as a Post Office

In June 1899 an advert appeared in the Independent: "a grocer's shop with a beer-off licence, No.101 Albert road, Heeley, which is rented at £45"

and from Sheffield Indexers:

Robinson, Roland V. (, Grocer & beer retailer).

Residing at 101 Albert Road, in 1905.

Recorded in: Whites Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham.

Smith, Campbell (, Grocer).

Residing at 101 Albert Road, Heeley, in 1911.

Recorded in: Whites Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham - 1911.

DRABBLE, Susan (Mrs, Grocer).

Residing at 101 Albert Road, Heeley, in 1925.

Recorded in: Sheffield & Rotherham Kellys Directory

From 1924 London Gazette :

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Geor.ge Creswick and Bertie Everard Dixon, carrying on business

as Electrical Engineers and Merchants, at 63, Chesterfield-road, and 101, Albert-road, both in the city of Sheffield, under the style or firm of the

CRESWICK DIXON ELECTRIC COMPANY, has been dissolved as from the date hereof.

From SH:

Beer Retailers 1891 "S " Whites

Sanderson Alfred 101 Albert Road

1888 Beer Retailer's "S " Kelly's

Sanderson Alfred 100 Shirebrook Road & 101 Albert Road , Heeley

Mrs Charlotte Brown Grocer and Beer Retailer and Post Office 100 Shirebrook Road and 101 Albert Road, Heeley Kelly's 1893

But not listed in Sheffield Archives' List of Licensed Beerhouses in Sheffield, c.1870 - c.1935 (ref. MC/7/1)

so I think the asnwer is "no, never was a pub" but it did have a beer off licence

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