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In the light of the government announcement of March 20th, all pubs are now closed until further notice.
A number of pubs are providing takeaway food and/or drinks during the Covid-19 lockdown. Some offer deliveries, while others are selling from the premises. This page lists details of those we know about.
If you can give any of our pubs some support through these terrible times by buying some takeaway food or drink, please do so. Our pubs need as much support of possible if they're going to still be there for us when the crisis is over.
Ipswich Engineers Arms
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 8th, 2020.
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Ipswich Engineers Arms
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
Shipwrights Arms 0.06 mile
Steamboat Tavern 0.15 mile
Three Buccaneers 0.23 mile
Waterfront 0.35 mile
Cult Café Bar 0.36 mile
Wiff Waff 0.39 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**
1946 - Henrietta Moy (later married Samuel Harding but died in 1952).
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)
