The Albion Tavern

Built

Purpose-built as a pub, opened February 1859; rebuilt by Harry Redfern 1917

Gone

Renamed the Border Rambler in the early 1990s

There now

The Border Rambler, still trading

Address

45-47 Botchergate

Where exactly

Placed on Botchergate from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Another lost name rather than a lost building. The Albion opened in February 1859, purpose-built, with its door round the corner on Portland Place because two shops occupied the Botchergate frontage. Those shops came down in 1905 so the pub could be enlarged. The State Management Board bought it in August 1916, shut it that October and had Harry Redfern redesign it. What reopened on 7 June 1917 stood on the site of the old Albion plus half of next door's Deakin's Vaults, which the scheme had closed; the other half became a shop.

There was an Albion Cafe on the first floor. It kept the name until the early 1990s, when it became the Border Rambler, and it is open now. So of the two pubs that stood here, one name survives and one does not.

Source

• thestatemanagementstory.org

Also lost on Botchergate

• The Albert Hotel
• The Midland Railway Tavern
• Deakin's Vaults
• The Earl Grey
• Mood
• The Las Vegas Strip
• Buzz Bingo
• The Crown
• BrewDog Carlisle
• Terminal
• The Hare & Hounds
• The Queen Adelaide
• Talk of the Border
• The Robin Hood Inn
• The Albert Tavern
• The Golden Quoit
• The Waggon and Horses
• The Northumberland Arms
• Queen's Inn
• The Railway Hotel
• The Saddle Inn
• United Services Club

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Border Rambler

  City Centre
  0 maway

• Rouge

  City Centre
  10 maway

• House of Vodka

  City Centre
  10 maway

• Thirty Two

  City Centre
  20 maway