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last updated Jul 15th, 2024.
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Bury St Edmunds Britannia
South, 52.2505,0.71326
Closed: before 1986
opened 1869
28 Ipswich St
grid reference TL 853 648
It's shown on this OS town plan from about 1850 (larger map).
Listed at 23 Ipswich Street and 24 Ipswich Street (in 1891)
In the March 1982 edition of Last Orders*** it was reported that this GK pub now offered Mild and IPA and closed at 11pm on Fridays & Saturdays.
An application to change this pub to a "Cyrenian House" was lodged in August 1986. As this refers to it as a "former public house", it had clearly closed by then.
Gallery
Beerhouse 0.08 mile
Old Cannon Brewery 0.08 mile
Bushel 0.14 mile
Linden Tree 0.19 mile
Secret Distillery 0.23 mile
Grapes 0.25 mileHistorical interest
In a case of assault the landlords of both the Railway Tavern and Britania, Thomas Garwood and John Manning respectively, gave evidence with respect to the victims sobriety. The question was asked, "how many half pints old Bury beer to make a man drunk?" It was suggested that 4 halves would do no harm but be beneficial."Bury & Norwich Post, August 8th 1876** (when Ellen & John Manning were the landlords)
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA members since 1978)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
