Albert Market: a colonial name and a 2014 fire

Wikipedia's Albert Market article states the market was built in the mid-nineteenth century on what is now Liberation Avenue in Banjul and was named for Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria, during British colonial administration. The article itself is flagged as thinly sourced, citing only two tourism-information pages, so this archive treats the founding date as an approximate, attributed claim pending a scholarly or archival source. ^{[wikipedia-albert-market]}

The Point newspaper reported that a fire gutted part of Albert Market, with a trader describing losses including recently imported clothing and shoes. Gambia's National Disaster Management Agency, the Red Cross and the Fire and Rescue Service all responded, and the market committee chairman urged traders to insure their stalls against future loss. This is a single dated news event, not a record of the market's full fire history. ^{[thepoint-albert-market-fire]}