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Beccles Pickerel
Beccles Pickerel
also traded as Doghouse
East, 52.4579,1.56076
Closed: between 1969 and 1980?
38 Puddingmoor
grid reference TM 420 903
First recorded in Beccles Manor documents in 1650, as the Doghouse. The last reference under this name is in 1761; the first record as the Pickerel is in 1782.
The building is shown as a pub on the 1969 OS map but seems not to be one on the 1980 and subsequent sheets, so presumably closed between those dates.
Gallery
Historical interest
A good accustomed public house… to be sold by auction… called the Pickerell in Beccles with a large orchard adjoining, late in the estate of Mathew Barnes deceased. For particulars inquire Mr Rede of Beccles aforesaid. Ipswich Journal, 8 Jun 1782
To be let and entered upon immediately, a public house at Beccles known by the sign of the Pickerel, with a garden adjoining of one acre, planted with choice fruit trees and on lease whereof 9 years are unexpired at Christmas next. Further particulars enquire John Powell, the present occupier. Ipswich Journal, 16 Nov 1782
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.