android appIpswich Great Eastern Railway Hotel
Ipswich Great Eastern Railway Hotel
also traded as Great Eastern Railway Tavern, GER
South, 52.05247,1.1493
closed 18th July 1908
81 Commercial Rd
grid reference TM 160 440
It's shown (but not named) on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The Great Eastern Railway Hotel stood at the east side of the junction between Commercial Road and Wolsey Street.
Its closure date was recorded in the Borough Police licensed premises register 1903-1923. The building has since been demolished.
Station Hotel 0.21 mile
Thomas Wolsey 0.21 mile
Silver Star 0.28 mile
Miami Bar 0.30 mile
Black Horse 0.34 mile
Plough 0.34 mileHistorical interest
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held in September 1865, William T Salmon, landlord of the Great Eastern Railway Tavern, Commercial Road, applied for a spirit license. The application was rejected. Ipswich Journal, Sep 1865**
On 30th December 1874 a fire was discovered to have broken out in the hay loft at the back of the GER Tavern, which is situated in Commercial Road. The fire apparatus at the Goods Station, directly opposite, being always kept in readiness in case of emergency, was fetched, and by its aid the fire was speedily extinguished.Ipswich Journal, January 1875**
Landlords
Footnote
The Eastern Union Railway was opened for public passenger traffic in June 1846 from an end-on junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Colchester to a terminus at Ipswich which now forms part of the Great Eastern Main Line. A connecting line to Bury St Edmunds opened in December 1846. Ipswich station then moved to the site of present station after the connecting tunnel was completed. The company became a constituent of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
