The Albert

It stands on the site of the Charlotte Street Ale and Porter House and Ophelia Evans became its first official licensee in September 1958. She and Sydney Evans then saw this new pub through its first eighteen years.

Originally known as the Albert Gate after the nearby gate of the mid-nineteenth century Keyham Steam Yard, the pub is now known more simply as the Albert.

The Gate itself, which was closed in 1966, was so named because it stood at the bottom of Albert Road (the former Navy Row).

This in turn took its name from Prince Albert (1819-61), Queen Victoria’s consort, who was alive when the Keyham Yard was opened and whose portrait now adorns the inn sign for this modern Plymouth pub.