Recently I have been re-compiling and updating a fairly comprehensive list of all the lost i.e. closed pubs of Ipswich (relating to the last 125 years or so). Some of the details already gathered are now published below. The time period chosen seems particularly apt as it begins just after a period of rapid growth in the total number of outlets. Relaxation in licensing laws had encouraged many new beer houses and public bars to open in the 1850s and compete with the well established coaching inns and taverns. In fact the total number of outlets open at any one time has probably been in slow decline ever since.

During late Victorian times prosperous and industrial towns like Ipswich were expanding fast. The old (medieval) town limits were no longer relevant as new housing estates on green-field sites sprang-up to replace the cramped town squalor. During such expansion many licenses held on older public houses were surrendered (or transferred) to help ensure that new public bars on the new housing estates were permitted. The narrow town centre streets were widened initially to accommodate electric trams - later trolly busses and the private motor car - but also causing the loss of many fine and historic buildings (including public bars) and the re-fronting of many others such as the Great White Horse and the Plough.

The old town centre street plan was also subjected to numerous road improvement schemes. During the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s large scale building programmes such as Greyfriars, Civic drive, various dock access systems, and a new Civic College replaced whole areas of earlier street plans and caused more loss of public houses. Today the main threat to remaining pubs is increasingly social with recent trends for large town centre bars, night-clubs and food orientated venues rather than support of the "back street" boozer - undoubtedly we will see more closures unless there is more desire to support your local!

PLEASE NOTE: This list is not yet definitive (despite numbering over 260 entries) but rather it is an on going project. I would be very grateful if anyone who has information (or photographs or newspaper clippings) relating to any local pub events or closures could send me a copy (or a high resolution scan) to help complete more of the database - credits will be given in future publications. Details of pub owners, dates of closure, and any prominent or last known landlord (or landlady) are particularly useful. You can either post information to me (via address given on inside front cover) or e-mail postmaster@ipswichcamra.com.

Finally I would like to give many thanks to anyone who has previously compiled such a list (including

R Dewhurst, S Slegg, B Cullum and G Potter) their efforts have been my starting point and my inspiration for this project.

ALSO SEE UPDATE (July 2007)

Pub Name - Street - Year Closed (If Known)

Admirals Hat - Cardinal St

Admirals Head Inn - St Margarets St - 1898/99

Albion Inn - Albion St (No 36 - 40)

Albion Mills - Woodbridge Rd - 1995

Alma Inn - Chenery St - 1966 (July)

Anchor Hotel - Princes St (No 121 - 3) - 1955 - 60

Anchor Inn - Duke St / Metz St - 1925 (before)

Angel Inn - Angel Lane - 1906 (before)

Artillery Arms (also Called Suffolk Artillery Arms) - Anglesea Rd (No 13)

Bakers Head - Boars Head Lane

Bar Fontaine (also Prince of Orange) - St Margarets Plain (No 10 - 12 ) - 1996

Barley Mow - Westgate St (No 36) / High St - 1965 (June)

Bath Hotel - Bath Street - 1888 (before)

Beehive (later Called Grand & Then Limmers) - Butter Market - 1960 (23 Mar)

Bell Inn - Cornhill - 1893

Belvedere - Cox Lane - 1907

Berners Arms Coffee Tavern - Berners St / St Mathews St

Black Bell (possibly also called Bell) - Elm St / Museum St - 1936

Black Bull Inn - Elm St

Blue Anchor Inn - Lower Orwell St (No 26 - 28) - 1881

Blue Coat Boy - Old Cattle Market - 1988

Boars Head Inn - Boars Head Lane - 1949

Boiler Makers Arms Hotel - Duke St (No 35) - 1957 (5 April)

Bold Crispin Inn - Rope Walk - 1900 (about)

Borough Tavern (also Old Borough Tavern) - Borough Rd (No 45) / Waterworks St - 1924

Boy & Partridge - St Margarets

Brewers Arms - Waterworks St

Brickmakers Arms - St Helens St - 1926

Bridge Tavern - Bridge St - Victorian

Britania Inn - Great Whip St (No 5) / Woodbridge Rd - 1966 (5th May)

British Lion Hotel - Princes St (No 55) - 1961

Bucks Horns - Woodhouse St / Gibcon St - 1936

Bull And Dog Inn - Fore St (No 55) - 1920

Bull Inn - John St / Key St - 1961 (29 Sept)

Bulls Head - Orwell Place / Fore St - 1958 (Sept)

Bury House - Fore St - 1900 (about)

California Arms - Spring Road (No 428) - 1900 - 25

Canteen - Barrack St

Cardinals Hat - Cecillia St / Cardinal St

Carlton - Tacket St

Chequers - New St (No 24) - 1920 - 1

Cherry Tree Inn - Cox Lane

Coach & Horses Hotel - Upper Brook St - 1975 after

County Hotel - St Georges St

Cow & Pail Inn - Rope Walk (No 7 - 11)

Cowells (Wine Merchant & Off Sales) - Market Lane

Cricketers Inn - William St (No 14) / Navarre St - 1936

Criterion Inn - Elm St / Museum St

Cross Keys - Carr St - 1939

Crown - Crown St (No 33 - 35) - 1937

Crown & Anchor Hotel (& Tap) - Westgate St - 1986

Crown & Sceptre - Crown St / High St - 1959

Crown (also Whitton Crown) - Norwich Rd - 1994

Crown Inn - Bridge St (No 2) - 1968 (April)

Crown Tavern - Fitzroy St

Curriers Arms - Curriers Lane - 1928

Defiance Inn - Stoke St - 1996

Dog & Partridge - Old Foundary Rd / St Margarets St - 1915 (about)

Dogs Head In The Pot - Dogs Head St

Dolphin Inn - St Peters Dock

Duke Of Cambridge Inn - Black Horse Lane

Duke Of Edinburgh - Waterworks St - 1937 (Nov)

Duke Of Gloucester - Clapgate Lane - 2000

Duke Of Kent - Upper Orwell St - 1965 (Nov)

Duke Of Sussex - Cumberland St - 1975 (After)

Duke Of Wellington - ?? - 1970s (late)

Eagle Tavern - Up Orwell St / Wherstead Rd - 1977

Earl Grey - Fore Hamlet - 1955

Earl Roberts (Prev. General Gordon) - Cox Lane - 1999

Eclipse Inn - Orwell Place / Upper Orwell St

Elephant & Castle - Handford Rd / The Mount

Elm Bakery - 1957

Elm Tavern - Spring Road / Milton St - 1999

Engineers Arms (also New Engineers Arms) - Bath Street (No 29) / Hawes St - 1961

Falcon Inn - Falcon St

Feathers - Westgate St (No 63) - 1966 (2 Oct)

Ferry - Bath St

Foresters Inn (later Shoulder Of Mutton) - Up Orwell St

Fountain - Holywells Road / Myrtle Rd - 1955

Fox & Grapes - Foundation St

Fox & Hounds - Tanners Lane

Fox Inn - Upper Brook St (No 45 - 49) - 1970 (May)

Friars Head Inn - Friars Rd - 1972 (2 Jan)

Friars Inn - Princes St - 1961 (18 March)

Fruiterers Arms (or Fruiterers Home) - Rope Walk (No 50) - 1937 (Dec)

Garderners Arms (or New Gardeners Arms) - Fore St - 1994

General Gordon - Upper Barclay St - 1937 (about)

George Inn - Woodhouse St / Tower Ramparts

GER Hotel - Croft St / Wolsey St?

Globe Inn - St Georges St (No 24) - 1958 (21 Sept)

Golden Fleece Hotel - St Mathews St - 1962 (29 Sept)

Grapes - Norwich Rd

Grapes - Tacket St

Grapes - Woodhouse St - 1938 (7 Aug)

Grapes Inn - Orford St (No 1 - 3) / Regent St

Great Eastern Railway Hotel - Commercial Road

Great Eastern - 42 Croft Rd - 1996

Great Man Inn - John St

Green Man - Key St (55) / Salt House St

Griffin Inn (Or Griffen) - Black Wall (Now New Cut) - 1951 (5 April)

Griffon - Handford Rd / Mount

Grocers Arms - New St / Pottery St

Grosvenor - Westgate St

Grove Tavern - St Helens St / Curve St - 1969 (Sept)

Gun Inn - Key St (No 19) / John St / Lower Orwell St - 1941

Half Moon - Foundation St / Lower Brook St - 1913

Half Moon And Star - St Mathews St - 1985

Halt & Hop - Queen St

Hand In Hand - St Peters St - 1981

Handford Cottage - Handford Rd - 1974 (4 Dec)

Handford Rose Inn - Handford Rd

Happy Returns - Holywells Road - 1975 (after)

Hermit - King St - 1922 - 3

Hornet - Elm St

Ipswich & Suffolk - Princes St

Ipswich Arms - Dogs Head St / Lower Brook St

Ipswich Arms - Handford Rd - 1999

Ivy Leaf - Westgate St (No 54)

John Barleycorn - Woodhouse St / Pottery St - 1957

Joiners Arms - Castle St - 1957 (21 Nov)

Jubilee - Colman St

Kings Arms Inn - Cornhill - 1966 (21 Aug)

Kings Head - Princes St

Leopard Inn - Crown St (No 59) / Clay Lane

Lifeboat Inn - Wherstead Rd (No 381 - 383) - 1965 (5 Sep)

Liitle Dustpan - Upper Brook St

Lion - St Margarets

Lion & Lamb - Fore St

Little Brunswich Tavern - Tacket St

Little Crown And Anchor - Gibson St / Curve St - 1920

Little Wonder - Bell Lane

Lock Tavern - New Cut East - 1955 (Sept)

Lord Chancellor Inn - Greyfriars Rd

Lord Palmerston - St Mathews St - 1962 (31 Jan)

Lord Raglan - Woodbridge Rd (No 208)

Magpie Inn - Wolsey St - 1900s early

Malsters Arms - Quay St / Stoke St

Malt & Hop - Queen St

Malthouse - Long St / New St - 1944 (27 July)

Market Bar - St Stephens Lane / Buttermarket - 1996

Market Hotel - Princes St

Marlborough Hotel - Henley Road - 2003

Marquis Of Cornwallis - Colman St - 1954

Marsh Tavern (also Old Marsh Tavern) - Princes St (No 93 - 95) - 1960 (31 May)

Maybush Inn - St Helens St - 1965 (23 May)

Mermaid - Fore Hamlet

Millers Arms - Crown St (No 93 - 95) / William St - 1936 (20 Aug)

Mitre Tavern - St Helens St - 1975 (After)

Morning Star - Upper Orwell St

Mountain Ash - The Mount / Handford Rd - 1959 (15 Mar)

Myrtle Tap - Bishops Hill

Mytle Inn - Fore Hamlet (118) - 1936

Nags Head - Cox Lane

Neptune Inn - Fore St - 1938 (6 March)

New Anchor - Austin St / Bell Lane

New Inn - Regent St - 1926 about

Nightingale - Duke St

Nightingale Inn - John St (No 13 - 15)

Norfolk Hotel - Princes St - 1958 (July)

Original Ocean Queen (Or New Ocean Queen) - Salt House St

Orwell House - Orwell Place

Orwell Inn - Lower Orwell St / New Cut West - 1961 (Jan)

Oxboroughs Hotel - St Peters St - 1997

Pedestrian - Lady Lane

Phoenix - Wingfield St (No 27) - 1962 (23 April)

Pickwick Stores - North Gate St / Colman St

Pig & Whistle (later Beehive) - Majors Corner - 1890s

Pilot - St Peters Dock / The Quay

Pipers Vale (Also Gainsborough) - Sandy Hill La - 1994

Pitts Bar - Nacton Road - 1997

Portobello Inn - Upper Orwell St

Post Chaise Inn - Woodbridge Rd (No 2) - 1900 (about)

Pot Of Flowers - Wykes Bishops St - 1939

Primrose Inn - Turret Lane

Prince Albert Inn - Lady Lane - 1903s early

Prince Of Wales Inn (Before 1843 Called Galliot Hoy) - Fore St (Top Of Lower Wash) - 1900s early

Princes Arms - Princes St

Quadling Arms - Quadling St

Queens Head Hotel - St Mathews St / Church Lane - 1963 (31 Dec)

Queens Hotel - Queen St - 1971 (24 Dec)

Railway Tavern - Burrell Road - 1989

Rainbow - St Mathews St (No 2) - 1961 (6 Nov)

Ram Inn - Quay St / John St

Reapers - Stoke St (No 59) - 1937 - 8

Red Lion Inn - St Margarets St

Rifleman Inn - Fore St

Rising Sun - Princes St - 1961

River Queen - Stoke St

Robin Hood & Little John - Woodbridge Rd

Rose Inn - Pottery St

Rose Hotel - Rose Lane / St Peters St - 1969 (23 Nov)

Rose Of England Inn - Woodbridge Rd - 1967 (22 Jan)

Round Of Beef - Carr St

Royal George - Tower Ramparts / High St

Royal George - Woodhouse St

Royal Oak Inn - North Gate St

Royal Standard - The Mount (No 20) - 1959 (29 July)

Royal William - Handford Rd - 1999

Running Buck (also Canes) - St Margarets Plain - 1991

Saddlers Arms - Waterworks St / Woodhouse St

Safe Harbour Inn - Borough Rd (No 45) - 1938

Safe Harbour Inn - Meredith Rd - 1995

Sailors Home - Fore St

Saracens Head - St Margarets / Slone St - 1960 (2 Nov)

Sea Horse Inn - Bank Street / College St - 1975 (post)

Shannon Inn - St Georges St (No 23) - 1922 - 3

Ship Inn - Back Hamlet

Shoulder of Mutton - Upper Orwell St

Sickle - Princes St

Sorrel Horse - Fore St - 1975 (Post)

Sporting Farmer (Later Drum & Monkey) - Princes St - 2004

Spotted Cow (also Called Iron Horse) - Bramford Rd - 1999

Spuds - Quay - 1992

St Clements Ale Stores - Fore St - 1931

St Edmunds Head - The Mount

St Helens Pride - Regent St

St Mathews Ale Store - St Mathews St

Staff Of Life - Bramford Rd (No 48 - 50) - 1962 (11 March)

Staff Of Life - Hawes St / Purplett St

Steam Brewery Inn - Upper Brook St

Steam Packet Hotel - Duke St - 1939 - 40

Steam Packet Tap - Coprolite St / St Peters Dock - The Quay

Suffolk Hotel - Commercial Road

Suffolk Stores - Westgate St

Sun Inn - St Stephens Lane - 1900s (early)

Swan Inn - Cecillia St

Tankard Inn - Tacket St - 1961 (Oct)

Three Cups Inn - Bramford Road - 1962 (25 March)

Three Swans Inn - Princes St - 1962 (16 Dec)

Three Tunns Inn - Commercial Road (No 79) / Cornhill - 1941

Times Brewery Inn - Borough Road (No 1 - 7) - 1938

Tooley Arms - Foundation St

Trafalgar Inn - Spring Road - 2002

Tramway Tavern - Norwich Rd (No 76 - 78) - 1925

Two Brewers - St Georges St No 78)

Unicorn Inn - Orwell Place / Tacket St - 1976 (14 Jan)

Union Jack Inn - St Peters Dock / The Quay - 1958

Vernon Arms - Vernon St

Victoria Tap Hotel - Berners St (No 25) - 1928 (about)

Vine Inn - Church St

Waggon & Horses (also Called Wagon) - Butter Market - 1920s

Watermans Arms - Foundry Lane

Waveney Arms - Bramford Rd (No 560) - 1994

Waveney Arms - Norwich Road

Welcome Sailor - Duke St - 1925

Welcome Stranger(s) - Fore Hamlet

Wellington Inn - Carr St (No 38) - 1875

Wellington Tap - Cox Lane - 1906

Westgates Commercial Hotel - New Cut East

Wheatsheaf - Fore St (No 24)

Wheatsheaf - Kemp St - 1964 (3 May)

Wheatsheaf - Stoke St

Wherry Inn - St Peters Dock -/ The Quay

White Elm Inn - Bishops Hill / Cavendish St - 1965 (18 March)

White Hart Inn - Tower Ramparts

White Horse - Albion St (No 107) / Fore Hamlet

White Horse Hotel - Woodbridge Rd

White Lion - Bridge St

Withipol Arms - Bolton Lane - 1937 (Sept)

Zulu Tavern - Wolsey St (No 18) - 1965 (21 March)

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