Beccles George & Dragon
last updated Dec 30th, 2021.
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Beccles George & Dragon
also traded as Adam & Eve
North, 52.45657,1.56289
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
King's Head Hotel 0.07 mile
Swan House 0.10 mile
Old Tap 0.10 mile
Bear & Bells 0.21 mile
Oakfired at Royal Oak 0.32 mile
Ingate 0.47 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 advertised 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***
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)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Some information from records transcribed by Foxearth & District Local History Society.
