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ALBION STORES

Location:- Corner of Albion Street and Wellington Street, about opposite the current Oxfam Shop (2022)

Brewery or Owner:-finally- Lacons Brewery, Yarmouth.

For some, so far unknown, reason, it was often referred to as "The Pelican" but it is always Albion Stores in official documents. It has been surmised that the brewery sign was a pelican, but Lacon's bird is quite definitely a hawk of some kind.

Situated on the left of the alleyway into The Rookery from Wellington Street. Purchased by Lacons Brewery in 1899, they bought the adjacent Derg House in 1946 with a view to modernising the combined premises.
The planners refusal was based on plans for the future of that area, the premises were dilapidated and much of the surrounding area were buildings now classed as unfit for habitation and there was no doubt the entire area was fit for demolition. It was mooted that the site of The Mount at the top of Exeter Road could be viewed as an alternative premises to which the licence might be transferred. That actually was what happened in 1953.

The actual closure date of the Albion Stores has not been found, but it had to be prior to Tuesday 6th January 1953 when The Mount opened.

The planners were thinking ahead to the redevelopment of the Rookery in 20 years time.

Lacon's brewery in Great Yarmouth started in 1760. In 1952 the company sold 20% to Whitbread who bought out Lacon's altogether in 1965, closing the brewery 1968. Lacons deposited a sample of their brewing yeast in 1957 at the Norwich-based National Collection of Yeast Cultures, as a backup in case their own cultures got contaminated. This enabled a new company, having negotiated with Anheuser-Busch InBev to secure the name and its intellectual property, to start up in 2013 using the original yeast,and so Lacons trades again today from Great Yarmouth.

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1892	Charles Bendall	Lacon's Brewery	Newmarket Journal
1892 April	George Bendall (son of previous)	Lacon's Brewery	Newmarket Journal
1899	R.W.Bixby	Lacon's Brewery	Cambridge Daily News
1899	Charles Henry Robinson	Lacon's Brewery	Cambridge Daily News
1899	Application to rebuild (EF506/12/83	Lacon's Brewery	Suffolk Records Office
1899 (Oct)	John Lemmon DOE	Lacon's Brewery	Bury Free Press
1901	John Doe	Lacon's Brewery	census
1906	John William Dewar	Lacon's Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1911	Frederick Dunmore (enumerator has "Pelican")	Lacon's Brewery	census
1913	Frederick Dunmore	witness in case against Lacon's Brewery Cambridge manager	Cambridge Independent Press
1916	Edith Emma Dunmore (Fredk. mobilised)	Lacon's Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1919	Frederick Dunmore on demob. (died 1938)	Lacon's Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1939	Alfred F and Edith E Dunmore	Lacon's Brewery	1939 register
1950	Alfred F Dunmore (Edith died 1950)	Lacon's Brewery	Newmarket Journal
1951 July	Cyril Charles Lucas (brewery official)	Lacon's Brewery	Newmarket Journal
1953 Jan 6	licence transferred to The Mount	Lacon's Brewery	Newmarket Journal

Edith Dunmore with her grandson Wally., around 1947

All gone, replaced late 1960s by the advertising hoarding.
Looking from New Cut, along Wellington Street, towards the High Street

2019, about where the blue car is, left bottom of this photo

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