Albert Road

This was the first domestic part of that area of Morice Town to be developed after the construction of the Keyham Steam Yard.

Described by Whitfeld as at one time "the only pretence to a street in Morice Town", the long sloping thoroughfare was originally known as Navy Row.

Indeed it was still known by that name in the late 1860s, some years after the death of the Prince Consort - in whose honour we assume the street was re-christened in the 1870s. The former gate into Keyham Yard at the bottom of the street soon after became known as the Albert Gate.

Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel, the younger son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and husband of Queen Victoria visited the area on a number of occasions. He was just 42 when he died, a victim of typhoid, in 1861.