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Bury St Edmunds Star Inn
Bury St Edmunds Star Inn
also traded as One Star
closed 1923
9 or 10 Mustow St
grid reference TL 857 643
The Star Inn was demolished in the 1920s for road-widening.
It's also been listed at 12 Mustow Street in 1844 and at 9 Mustow Street in 1891.
Researching my maternal grandmother’s family I discovered they once lived in Mustow St. only a couple of doors away from the Star Inn. This wonderful street scene (see main picture) shows what I believe is the Star (with huge chimneys). regards, Anthony Worman
Nearby to the Fox was the Star Inn, which, while only a small distance from the Fox, was within Mustow Street. Mustow Street turns into Eastgate Street when the road reaches the Broadway at the bend in the road. The Star had been here for at least 200 years, and was an old timber framed building. It had been a Carriers Inn, but the obvious narrowness of the road at this point was its undoing…
Gallery
Historical interest
A report in the Ipswich Journal** In Dec 1800 states :
Died Thursday 24th Dec 1800 Mrs Spencer, of the Star Inn, Bury St. Edmund's.Ipswich Journal, December 1800**
Married last Thursday, Mr Charles Parker, gunmaker, of Bury, to Miss Boldero, eldest daughter of Mrs Boldero, of the Star Inn.Ipswich Journal, September 1820**
Mr Andrews, carpenter, Bury St Edmunds took Ezekel Goff, landlord of the Star Inn, Bury to court to recover a debt of £29 5s 2d (£4 5s 2d having been paid into the court) leaving an outstanding sum of £25 for work done…
Landlords
(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)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
