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Ipswich Engineers Arms
52.04723,1.15701
closed 14th May 1961
last owner/operator: cobbold
29 Bath St
grid reference TM 165 434
The Engineers' Arms is understood to have stood at the junction of Hawes Street and Bath Street. Comparing the photograph with the 1883 Town Plan, it appears to have stood on the north-west corner of the junction. It has since been demolished.
The New Engineers Arms in Hawes Street may be confused with this pub.
Gallery
Steamboat Tavern 0.16 mile
Silver Star 0.23 mile
Isaacs 0.42 mile
Briarbank 0.45 mile
Bin 93 0.46 mile
Lord Nelson 0.46 mileHistorical interest
Reported in the Ipswich Journal in May 1855 that at the Ipswich Petty Sessions that James Whittaker, keeper of the Engineer's Arms beer house, Bath Street, St Mary Stoke, was convicted of keeping his premises open at half past eleven on a Monday night, he was fined 40s and costs.Ipswich Journal, May 1855**
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held in September 1865, James Haslam, landlord of the Engineer’s Arms, Stoke, applied for a spirit license. The application was rejected. Ipswich Journal, Sep 1865**
Herbert John Godbold is listed at the Engineers Arms in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £12pa from Oct 1903 to Sep 1917 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
In 1937 the pub was listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 pubs that were retailing beer that they were brewing…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Closure date from Ipswich licensing records.
(historical detail provided by David Knights)
(census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
