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Albion Tavern
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Date of photo: 2010 |
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The Albion Tavern was situated at 90 Burford Road.
This pub closed in September 2010 and was demolished in June 2011. Seven
houses now stand on the site. |
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Source: Chris Eades |
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I used to live there in 1957. I was 15
at the time and Mom & Dad were the licensees. Mom & Dad were Flo and Charles
Webb. We moved there after “The Parrot Inn” in the market place closed down.
I remember the school teacher that lived across the road from the tavern,
rain or shine he mowed the grass regularly, sometimes he was covered head to
toe with wet green grass. I live in Australia now and went back for a month
in November 1999. I was told that there is a commemorative plaque dedicated
to Dad somewhere in Chipping Norton but I couldn’t locate it.
When I left school I worked in BAINS cycle shop for a while before working
at Bliss Tweed Mill. After that I worked for Cotswold Springs as lorry
driver’s mate delivering to a wide area. I often think of the folks I
associated with in my teens and I look back and wonder if anyone (male or
female) ever thinks of me. It would be interesting to do “catch-up” with
folks from my past. |
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Tom Webb (October 2018) |
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Review from tantallon.org.uk: |
Free House
* Hook Norton Best (3.4%) Ł1.70
* Stowford Press real-ish Cider Ł2.00 (21.vi.1999)
"It's the sort of place I've only seen before on I'm Alan Partridge" ---
Owen Massey
Some way out of Chipping Norton, past a school with its own coach park for
tourists, on the road to Burford, sits a low motel-type pub. There's an old
piano in the corridor. Very upholstered and carpeted it is.
Ideal for the low-key sexual encounters of middle management.
Decent Hook Norton Best available (but no other real ales). Beermats. Past
Timesy upholstery on the benches, much like in The Oxford House Inn. Several
entire Aunt Sally sides came in and started eating a huge lasagne.
(21.vi.1999) |
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