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CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Aug 16th, 2021.
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Bury St Edmunds George Inn
North, 52.2403,0.70991
closed 5th December 1957
opened 1840
35 Out Westgate
grid reference TL 851 636
The pub is shown on this OS town plan of 1885.
An earlier pub of the same name was located in the Market place.
My grandfather, Richard DAVISON, was a Greene King tenant of two BSE pubs, the Chequers Alehouse and the George Inn. Please note spelling of his surname; the Kelly version is incorrect.Licence was voluntarily surrendered 5 Dec 1957 at which date the pub closed and my grandfather continued to live at the premises until his death in 1976. The death of my grandmother earlier in the year triggered the closure of the pub.
"The license was transferred by Greene King to their new pub the Greengage…
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(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
