NEHL - A cricket ground is shown on the plan of West Hartlepool of 1859 close to the Burn Brewery. This was the home ground of Hartlepool Albion Cricket Club, having obtained the land from a Mr W. Bolum, Esq. The club had already existed since at least 1849, having played a match against Seaton Carew.

It is cited in the Durham Chronicle of 19th May 1854 that it was cited near the Brunswick Brewery, with hopes that the "inhabitants of Hartlepool will assist with a willing hand the parties who have engaged in so laudable and praiseworth an under-taking. The piece then goes on to note cricketing as an innocent, health and exhilarating recreation for those "cooped up in towns during the summer months, and have to breathe air charged with dust and smoke".

Both the 1859 plan and the Ordnance Survey surveyed in 1857 show a small clubhouse on the western extremity of the ground, with a rectangular enclosure bordering the born which ran from the sea westerly past All Saints Church.

The site had been taken over by the Corporation Yard and Hartlepool Paper Works by the 1890s. It appears the Albion Cricket Club became defunct not long after the 1850s, as newspaper records dry up.