Ipswich Ipswich Arms
Ipswich Ipswich Arms
North, 52.05591,1.15596
Closed: about 1900
opened 1780s
2 Lower Brook St
grid reference TM 164 444
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The Ipswich Arms was demolished and replaced by a shop.
It's also listed in Dog's Head Street.
A report in the Suffolk Chronicle** on 23rd January, 1813 reports the death of the wife of the landlord, W. ALEXANDER on 17th January, 1813, aged 40.
Shamrock 0.01 mile
Plough 0.04 mile
Cock & Pye 0.09 mile
Miami Bar 0.10 mile
Falcon 0.14 mile
Bar Twenty One 0.14 mileHistorical interest
John Suckamore was found guilty of being quarrelsome, disorderly and refusing to quit the Ipswich Arms when asked to do so by the landlady Mrs Read, he was fined 5s and costs; 7 days imprisonment in default of payment. Ipswich Journal, Nov 1865**
Eliza Read, a respectably dressed woman, wife of the landlord of the Ipswich Arms, Lower Brook Street, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Policeman Fiske said that he heard a great row at 4am coming from outside the Ipswich Arm’s, he found Mrs read sitting on her doorstep very drunk, two other officers stated that they had seen her at 2am and had seen she was very drunk…
Landlords
1813: W. ALEXANDER
1823: James Alexander ((lower brook st))
1830: Robert Burch
1839: Philip Stephens
1840: Philip Stephens
(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)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
