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Woodbridge White Hart
Woodbridge White Hart
also traded as Gin Shop, Black Boy, Maidenhead, Cyder Press
West, 52.09307,1.31871
closed 1969
1 Brook St
grid reference TM 274 490
The White Hart has been demolished and replaced by a modern development.
The 1904 Woodbridge licensing records show that the pub's license was issued in 1823.
Note: Henry Edwards (not necessarily one person) is recorded in various censuses at Cumberland Street, Church Street and Warren Hill in the same business.
None of the censuses identifies a pub.
Historical interest
Sale by Auction of the Estate of the Bankrupt, John Sheldrake (brewer) of Framlingham: part of Lot 2 The Interest and Terms of Years subsisting in Leases made to the Bankrupt for the following Drawing-House : the Black Boy in Woodbridge, in the Occupation of Michael Taylor.Ipswich Journal, 4 June 1768***
Mrs Abel died, a few days since at the White Hart Inn, Woodbridge.Ipswich Journal, March 1810**
To be sold by auction the household furniture of Mrs Smith, at the White Hart Inn, Woodbridge, who is retiring from business; consisting of three 4-post bedsteads, cotton furniture, featherbeds, wool mattresses, blankets and quilts, about 6 dozen wooden bottom chairs, mahogany wainscot, dining and pillar tables, bureau and bookcase, 4 cotton festoon window curtains, 7 dozen knives and forks, a lar…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)