page_title: Albion, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Albion, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Albion Hotel, Brisbane, ca. 1866. Hudson was the proprietor the hotel from 1866 to 1870. Thomas Hazledon built this hotel in about 1864 and named it Albion.
context_page_description: Albion is an inner north-eastern suburb of the City of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Albion had a population of 2,296 people.
context_section_description: The name Albion comes from the Albion Hotel built by Thomas Hayseldon (also written as Hazeldon), which was so called because the white wall of John Petrie's quarry reminded Hayseldon of the England's white cliffs (Albion being an old name for England, from the Latin albus meaning white). From 1866 to 1870, the proprietor was Edward Hudson. The low lying parts of Albion came into the limelight when a swampy area near the Breakfast Creek was designated as the racecourse. In 1885, it became the headquarters of the Smithfield Pony Club and later in 1895 of the Albion Park Racecourse. Many Chinese migrants settled here and the Temple of the Holy Triad was built on the Higgs Street for the local community in 1885-86.
  On September 27, 1880, eight blocks of land of "Corunna Estate" were advertised for auction by John Cameron.
  On October 28, 1899, sixty allotments of land of Albion Hill estate, being re-subdivisions 1 to 60, of subdivision of section 3 of portion 162, Parish of Enoggera, were advertised for auction by Isles, Love & Co. The advertising map states the estate's proximity to Albion Train Station, with 76 trains daily. The land for sale was situated between Camden St, Albion, and Ford St and Old Sandgate Rd (now Bonney Ave), Clayfield.
caption: Albion Hotel, Brisbane, ca. 1866, from which the suburb of Albion takes its name
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