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Ipswich Welcome Sailor
North, 52.05253,1.16453
Closed: about 1924
2 Fore Hamlet
grid reference TM 170 440
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (
This pub was listed at 1 and 2 Fore Hamlet before 1891 and also mentioned as being in Duke Street.
Previously on this site was a pub called the Cock, which has been dated back to 1609, but we do not know if any of this survived to be a part of the later building. The nearby junction was also once known as Cock corner.
The property was not listed in 1932, but the pub was listed in the 1903-1923 Borough Police licensed premises register, so must have closed after 1923.
This pub has since been demolished.
Gallery
Bin 93 0.14 mile
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Waterlily 0.27 mileHistorical interest
To be sold by auction, at the White Horse Hotel, Ipswich, the freehold and capitally situated public house known as the Welcome Sailor, at the corner of Duke Street and Fore Hamlet, Ipswich, in the occupation of Mr James Burnett.Ipswich Journal, July 1865**
Married on the 13th at St. Clement's Church, Mr Edward Downing, youngest son of Mr C Downing, to Caroline daughter of Edmund Rose, of the Welcome Sailor, St Clement's [parish], Ipswich.Ipswich Journal, March 1870**
A report in the Ipswich Journal, December 7th 1877** states that landlord, Mr C Bullard, attended a meeting of the Licenced Victullers Association.
Joseph Wilson and Mary Squirrell were lovers, she was married but seperated from her husband but nethertheless her parents disapproved of their relationship…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
