Ipswich Suffolk Hotel
last updated May 28th, 2020.
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Ipswich Suffolk Hotel
North, 52.05235,1.14716
Closed: about 1970
31 Commercial Rd
grid reference TM 158 440
It's shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
It stood on the corner of Commercial Road and New Cardinal Street.
At a Petty Sessions hearing on 29 September 1860, the Suffolk Hotel was refused a new spirits licence. Out of the twenty four applications only three establishments were granted licences.
Later it was called the Suffolk Stores off licence.
Building has since been demolished and eventually this site was redeveloped into part of a Royal Mail sorting office. New Cardinal street has been shortened, so no longer exists in this location.
Gallery
Station Hotel 0.13 mile
Thomas Wolsey 0.29 mile
Falcon 0.36 mile
Silver Star 0.36 mile
Miami Bar 0.37 mile
Arcade Street Tavern 0.40 mileHistorical interest
A report in the Ipswich Journal, April 1st 1837** when James Rowell was landlord, states that he was a witness in a civil action concerning the ownership of a piece of reclaimed marshland in the St Mary Stoke parish.
Died on the 31st of July at Islington, William, son of Mr James Cherinton, late of the Suffolk Hotel, Ipswich.Ipswich Journal, August 1850**
To let. Situated on the Commercial Road, near the railway station, good stabling and Ten Pin Ground. Apply the Falcon Brewery.Ipswich Journal, 1860**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(detailed information from Old inns of Suffolk by Leonard P Thompson)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Petty Sessions info from Ipswich Journal (Kim Jennings).
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
