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Ipswich Staff of Life
52.06236,1.14052
closed 11th March 1962
last owner/operator: Tolly Cobbold
48-50 Bramford Rd
grid reference TM 153 450 (approximate location)
It's also listed at 52 Bramford Road (1871).
The Staff of Life closed in 1962 and was demolished as a result of a Compulsory Purchase Order.
Gallery
Brewers Arms 0.22 mile
St Jude's Brewery Tavern 0.31 mile
Mermaid 0.35 mile
Greyhound 0.45 mile
Arbor House 0.46 mile
Black Horse 0.52 mileHistorical interest
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions of 31st December 1874 the license for the Staff of Life, Bramford Road, was transferred from William Gooderham to William Wright.Ipswich Journal, January 1875**
Mrs Beatrice Bowles (married Henry William Sayer in 1905) is listed at the Staff of Life in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £15pa from Feb 1899 to Sep 1905 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Henry William Sayer is listed at the Staff of Life in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £15pa from Dec 1905 to Sep 1917 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
In 1937 the pub was listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 pubs that were retailing beer that they were brewing.
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
