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Ipswich Cross Inn
Ipswich Cross Inn
North, 52.05823,1.15311
Closed: about 1775
Cornhill
grid reference TM 162 446
The Cross Tavern was a prominent inn on the corn hill until it closed about 1775.
The building was then converted into Waterloo house (later Old Waterloo house)which was a retail shop. The building was subsequently demolished in the late 1880s to make way for the current Lloyd's Bank building.
Historical interest
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, November 1st 1729***, to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern on the Cornhill.
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, August 29th 1730***, to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern on the Cornhill.
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, July 27th 1734**,* to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern, now rebuilt in the Corn-Hill near the Market Cross in Ipswich.
Edward Whaley, removed from the Cross Tavern on the Corn Hill into St Nicholas-street near the Faulcon, (selling spirits).Ipswich Journal, April 21st 1739***
William Gledhill, from the Black Bull Inn in Leadenhall-Street, London, has taken the Cross-Tavern in Ipswich.Ipswich Journal, September 17th 1748***
George Almond is removed from the Golden Lyon to the Cross Tavern, Ipswich, and has fitted it …
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)