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Bury St Edmunds Cricketers Inn
Bury St Edmunds Cricketers Inn
also traded as Green Dragon, Cricketer's Arms
South, 52.24473,0.7069
Closed: between 1970 and 2000
142 King's Rd
grid reference TL 848 641
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1850 (larger map).
The pub was demolished in the 1970s.
The Cricketers stood on the north side of what's now King's Road, roughly where the roundabout junction with Parkway is now.
Field Lane became Cemetery Road after 1851 and then King's Road. in the 20th century.
The pub's listed at 20 Field Lane by 1851, 50 Cemetery Road by 1874, 142 Cemetery Road by 1901 and finally at 142 King's Road (there was a good deal of street renaming and renumbering).
Historical interest
On Monday morning William Lofts, landlord of the Cricketers' Arms, had not risen at his usual hour so his daughter went to her father's room to find him dead in his bed. He had complained of pains in the chest the previous night, but nothing serious was apprehended by his friends.Ipswich Journal, February 1880**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.