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Ipswich Lock Tavern

Ipswich Lock Tavern

also traded as Dock Tavern, Westgate's Commercial Hotel

North, 52.05027,1.15933

closed 11th September 1955

New Cut East

grid reference TM 167 438

The pub is shown on this OS town plan of 1883 (interactive map").

old OS map

The former Lock Tavern was converted In to two flats and a house In the late 1950s, and subsequently demolished. Many thanks to Derrick Elliston who writes "I lived In The Ground Flat With My Parents. My Father Was A Boat Man For The Dock Commission."

According to the book "A Victorian Vision, the building of Ipswich Wet Dock", the Lock Tavern started out as Westgate's Commercial Hotel.

The name refers to the original lock which is visible on this map as an indentation on the New Cut West side, not the current one.

Map

map

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Historical interest

Historical interest

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Landlords

Landlords

(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)

Closure date from Ipswich licensing records.

(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)

(*** historic book information from Bob Mitchell)

Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

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