grid reference TM 163 434
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last updated 25/01/2020Ipswich Great Eastern
also traded as as: GER, Albert, Royal Albert
historical closure era: late 20th centuryclosed 1996
42-44 Croft St
Now residential.
It was called the Royal Albert, Wherstead Road, in 1851 census and the Albert, Albert Street, in 1861 census. In both cases it was listed next to the EUR.
It has also been listed at Wolsey St.
Was owned by Stewart & Patterson for some time.
The pub is shown (but not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. larger map
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Note
The GER was formed in 1862 by amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway with smaller railways: the Norfolk Railway, the Eastern Union Railway, the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway, the East Norfolk Railway, the Harwich Railway, the East Anglian Railway and the East Suffolk Railway among others.