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Bury St Edmunds Green Dragon
Bury St Edmunds Green Dragon
South, 52.2435,0.71206
Closed: before 1840
Guildhall St
grid reference TL 852 640
The Green Dragon has been demolished.
Historical interest
To be sold, the Green Dragon, standing in Guildhall-street, in Bury, now in the Occupation of William Rofe.Ipswich Journal, October 25th 1746***
William Rose is lately removed from the Green-Dragon to the Bushel Inn in Bury St Edmunds.Ipswich Journal March 10th 1750***
On Saturday morning, as two boys from Cavendish were going to school they were bitten by a mad dog, though they were a mile distant from each other, one boy was named William Ives, son of a wheelwright the other was named Thomas Ambrose the son of a farmer…
Landlords
Footnote
The green dragon may be a reference to the Earl of Pembroke and appears on their coat of arms. William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk was an important medieval English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He was created Earl of Pembroke in 1447 and Duke of Suffolk in 1448.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)