There was a Sheffield footy club in the 1880's called Albion and they played somewhere up Eccy Road. Does anyone know anything of it?

there's a boozer on london road called the albion

Yeah, I wondered if there was a link.There was also a large "Albion Works" somewhere as well

Yes Ned -- according to Percy Young's book "Football in Sheffield"

"The constituent clubs of the Sheffield FA with their dates of foundation and colours, were in 1877 as follows

Albion (1872), white and white hoops."

A stats site on the net posts two friendly results for the Albion

08.04.1876 Alexandria Athletic 1 Allbion 0

01.01.1878 Albion 1 Alexandria Athletic 2

Alexandria Athletic were a Scottish club. The only other info in Youngs book states that the players tended to move from one Sheffield club to another frequently and so pinning the players down may prove extremely difficult

White and White hoops ?
Is that white hoops on a darker coloured sock for example ?

Those are the colours of the kit given in Percy Young's book Personally, I think that there is a colour missing but in the absence of any sort of photo or reference this is the only info available.

Percy Young gives no reference for the information he obtained on the clubs in question

Thanks ceegee.
Anymore info. on the location of their pitch would be interesting anyone?

Originally posted by Ned Ludd
Yeah, I wondered if there was a link.There was also a large "Albion Works" somewhere as well There was, and a pub named after that to on Norfolk Bridge.
Theres a diner where the Albion pub was now.
It used to be called Gee Gees but has since changed its name.

there was also a pub called the albion near beet street, on the St georges estate IIRC. My late granny told me, years ago, that when she and my late grandpa married, their recepion was held in the Albion.

The road it was on runs near edward street flats, just above radford street/ daisy walk/upper allen street.

In the olden days, the roads that the high rise flats are named after (the ones near the university roundabout) such as Cornhill,Adamfield, (radford, bramwell?) Robertshaw (the names escape me for the moment) used to go all the way across, where the tram track and the dual carriageway are now, to the edward street flats.

The Albion pub building is now a huge student-flats development.

(there was a murder committed on the street that the albion was situated on a few weeks ago)

PT

T W Ward's premises on Saville Street were know as The Albion Works.