the albion..sheepcote st

[Astoness]

dated...1989

 

[inchbrook]

Hi, my family lived in the house next to the Albion Inn in Sheepcote Street. They were the Neal, Lightfoot and Loukes. My great grand father had several business in the area of Sheepcote Street. A pub, possibly the Albion, a cafe and barge steerage business named after him, George Lightfoot.

 

[jimbo]

inchbrook, I worked for a time at the Hi-Ton in Sheepcote Street but was too young to frequent the Albion although my workmates and myself often spent our dinner hour in the cafe, which I believe was called "Foxhalls Cafe" then (1961) listening to the "Juke Box" playing Mule Skinner Blues, a song that sorted out the best dancers at the West End, slow start but boy did it get fast. Going back into work a little late one dinner time the works manager Mr Allen remarked "don't you know the hooters gone" to which my mate Skinner Evans replied "well we ain't had it". Almost marching orders.
The landlady at one time was Mary Christmas and they kept Ben Johnson after that.
jimbo