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Ipswich Duke of Kent
East, 52.057,1.15968
closed 7th November 1965
last owner/operator: Tolly Cobbold
10 Upper Orwell St
grid reference TM 167 445
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The building pictured was constructed in about 1903 to replace an earlier pub of same name. The earlier building was called the Joiners Arms before 1845.
After closure, this distinctive pub building was used for many years as a Co-Op Funeral parlour, but it has been empty now for many years.
To be let, a small public house, the Duke of Kent, situated in Upper Orwell Street, with a stable and convenient enclosed yard, adapted for a person keeping horses, Cabs, and Gigs to let.Ipswich Journal, October 1850**
Gallery
Salutation 0.04 mile
County 0.08 mile
Spread Eagle 0.11 mile
Cock & Pye 0.14 mile
Shamrock 0.17 mile
Hank's Dirty 0.17 mileHistorical interest
Edward Bell a tailor was charged with stealing a quarter of a pint of rum, the property of Mr William Skeet, landlord of the Duke of Kent Inn, Upper Orwell Street. When Mrs Skeet refused to serve Bell some beer, who in her opinion had enough, he climbed over the counter and helped himself. The following day Bell went to Mrs Skeet and offered her a half-sovereign to make it up. The magistrates considered that the rum was not taken with any felonious intent and advised Mrs Skeet to withdraw the charge, which she agreed to and Bell was discharged with a caution. Ipswich Journal, March 1875**
William Orford Penny is listed at the Duke of Kent in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £16pa from Jul 1878 to Feb 1903 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)…
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)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
