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Bury St Edmunds Everard's Hotel
Bury St Edmunds Everard's Hotel
also traded as Woolpack, Wool Pack, Wool Packet?, Red Lion, Thistle and Crown
East, 52.24482,0.71184
closed 1991
Cornhill
grid reference TL 852 642
It's shown here on an OS town plan from about 1850 (larger map).
This was a Commercial & Family hotel near the Corn Exchange.
The Norfolk Chronicle refers to a Bury pub called the Wool Packet in August 1781. Was this the same as the Woolpack?
The Woolpack name may be a reference to the earlier inn listed in the Meat Market on this site?
My mother in law's parents ran the Everard's hotel. They were called Tom and Lucy Butcher. Regards Nige Cryer
Today the building is used as retail premises. It's reported that when the current Pizza Hut was being set up, no fewer than seventeen wells were found behind the premises.
Gallery
Historical interest
The House, late the Thistle and Crown, in the Market-Place, adjoining to the Wool Hall (Bury St Edmunds) is pull'd down and new built, with new Stables adjoining to the House, and is made the Sign of the Red Lion, with Rooms fashionable and commodious. George Death.Ipswich Journal, January 5th 1754***
Elizabeth Sumpter has taken the Red Lyon Inn, near the Gaol, in Bury St Edmunds. NB. There is a very good Stilyard for weighing Hay, Wool etc.Ipswich Journal, January 17th 1756***
Auction of the Household Furniture of the Red Lion Inn, Bury St. Edmunds, (together with) the effects of Sidley Eldred (who may be the tenant and in financial difficulty).Ipswich Journal, 26 Feb 1780***
John Kimmance (who lately kept the King's Head Inn, near the Risby-gate-street, Bury St…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.