The Albert and The Lion
Opening Times
Facilities
- accessibleStep Free Access
- baby_changing_stationBaby Change
- deckLicensed Outside Area
- wifiWifi
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Poretti on draught – new world beer
Poretti (4.8% ABV) is an Italian premium full-flavoured lager, characterised by a pillowy white head, brilliant clarity and a polished golden colour.
Christmas at Wetherspoon
No need to book, just turn up and enjoy the festive offering.
The Christmas menu will be available from Wednesday 13 November until Tuesday 31 December (excluding Christmas Day).
New Wetherspoon hotel
A new hotel at The Mile Castle, in Newcastle upon Tyne, is opening at 8am on Tuesday 26 November.
The Good Beer Guide 2025 – We’re in it
In total, 251 of the company’s pubs are listed in CAMRA’s publication, which is the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide.
Wetherspoon hotels
From Tuesday 1 October 2024, Wetherspoon is changing the way in which guests can book rooms at its hotels located in the UK.
Autumn Deals
Customers at 700 Wetherspoon pubs will be able to enjoy a pint of beer from £1.79 from Wednesday 18 September.
Sticky Korean fried chicken bowl
Wetherspoon’s pubs are now serving the NEW sticky Korean fried chicken bowl – for a limited time only.
Pub history
The first Woolworths store on this site is referred to in Stanley Holloway’s famous comic monologue and bestseller, Albert and The Lion. Albert was ‘a little lad … swallowed whole’ by the lion in the menagerie at the foot of Blackpool Tower. Albert had prodded the beast with ‘a stick with an ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle, the finest that Woolworths could sell’. The original 78rpm monologue recording was sold in Woolworths store in Blackpool in 1923 for sixpence. Holloway later became a character actor and the mainstay of the ‘Ealing’ comedies.
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