android appIpswich Bull and Dog
listed building grade II
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jan 10th, 2022.
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Ipswich Bull and Dog
also traded as Bull Dog Inn, Black Lion?
South West, 52.05402,1.16
closed February 1920
last owner/operator: cobbold
55 Fore St
grid reference TM 167 442
The pub can be seen on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The building dates from the 18th century or earlier.
We've seen one reference to this building as the Black Lion, though whether this is an older name or a mistake isn't currently known.
In 1888 the pub was listed at 53 Fore Street, St Clements.
By 1922 part of the pub had been converted into a Post Office and remains as a Post Office today. The license was surrendered February 1920, according to the Borough Police licensed premises register.
John Martin tells us:
My Great Grandmother Matilda Martin (later Wallace) ran the Bull & Dog in Fore Street in the late 1800s. When she re-married the family moved to the Lord Raglan on Woodbridge Road where she lived until the mid 1930s.
Gallery
Lord Nelson 0.05 mile
Briarbank 0.06 mile
Bin 93 0.08 mile
Spread Eagle 0.09 mile
Shamrock 0.21 mile
County of Suffolk 0.21 mileHistorical interest
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held on the 18th November 1875, the license for the Bull and Dog, Fore Street, was transferred from Caroline Dowsing to Caleb Page Miller.Ipswich Journal, Nov 1875**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
