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Beccles Falcon
North East, 52.4575,1.56296
Closed: 1963, possibly a little earlier.
9 New Market
grid reference TM 421 903
The Falcon was demolished for a retail development in 1963.
A Smith's paper "Inns of Beccles in 1929" (kindly supplied by Daryl Ling) tells us that there was a cockpit in the Falcon. Smith tells us that it was the oldest inn in town.
Historically listed in Ballygate.
King's Head Hotel 0.01 mile
Old Tap 0.04 mile
Graze at the White Horse 0.04 mile
Wine Vaults 0.07 mile
Bear & Bells 0.15 mile
Oakfired at Royal Oak 0.26 mileHistorical interest
A Main of Cocks will be fought at Mr Benjamin Lambert's House, the Faulcon in Beccles.Ipswich Journal, May 17th 1740***
A Main of Cocks at Mr Benjamin Lambert's, the Falcon, Beccles.Ipswich Journal, June 19th 1742***
In 1782 the Norfolk Chronicle reported the death of Mrs Ward from the inn, in an accident at Barnby.
Thomas FARR inherited the Falcon from his father in 1795 & then owned Inn for 55 years**
On April 28th 1852 George YOUELL - sale of Inn & Brewery (he previously held the Chequers 1839 - 1844)**
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** a book - The Story of a Beccles Inn: The Falcon by Dorothy Smith - ISBN 1 90304501 0)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
