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Beccles George & Dragon
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated May 29th, 2020.
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Beccles George & Dragon
also traded as Adam & Eve
Closed 1904
opened 1728 or earlier
Hungate La
grid reference TM 421 902
First mentioned in records of 1728 when it was the Adam & Eve. It became the George & Dragon about 1795. It closed in 1904 and the license was transferred to the Ingate.
A pub appears at this spot on the 1884 OS town plan. This seems likely to have been the George & Dragon. If you can confirm or refute this, please let us know.
Gallery
Wine Vaults 0.05 mile
Graze at the White Horse 0.10 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.10 mile
Waveney House Hotel 0.20 mile
Bear & Bells 0.20 mile
Caxton Arms 0.24 mileHistorical interest
To be sold, a well accustom'd public Inn, call'd the Adam and Eve, with a Bowling-Green and large Gardens, rented at £14 per Annum, Freehold, in Beccles.Ipswich Journal, June 8th 1751***
After confirmation that Robert Le Grys of Beccles had died, a number of licensed property that he owned in town were advertisewd for sale the following week including: The White Lyon, the Adam and Eve, with a large Bowling-Green, Garden and Yards, in the Occupation of Widow Alcock, at the yearly Rent of £12; and also the Crown in Bungay.Ipswich Journal, October 10th 1767***
Colchester Brewery Co is to sell the George & Dragon, Hungate La.East Suffolk Gazzette, June 18th 1907
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Some information from records transcribed by Foxearth & District Local History Society.
