Albert Road

Albert Road (previously Bridgegate Street) was a street in Weatherfield.

In 1781, businessmen William Fairhurst and Fairley Oakes chose the street to build The Stag Brewery on. The brewery began to expand in 1848 and opened their first public house The Stag Inn on the street.

Norman Hill owned a photography shop on the street in the late 1970s and was hired by Newton and Ridley to take the cover photograph of the Rovers Return Inn for the first issue of their new in-house magazine Over the Bar.

From the early 1980s, Tilsley's Garage operated on the street. The business was owned by Brian Tilsley until his death in February 1989 and was managed by his hired hand Kevin Webster until Tom Casey bought the business in March.

In January 1986, Jenny Bradley's mother Pat was involved in a hit-and-run on the street and passed away from her injuries in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

By 1989, a Bettabuy supermarket was located on the street. In Decemeber 1991, the supermarket's manager Reg Holdsworth was taken into custody by a police sergeant on suspicion of robbery when he was unable to produce any form of identification after being caught on the street taking a box of food from the closed store.

The Hour Glass pub was also located on Albert Road - in the late 1990s it was bought by Fraser Henderson.

List of appearances
1996
 * Sun 22nd Dec
 * Fri 27th Dec

2004
 * Wed 28th Jan