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Ipswich Little Crown and Anchor
Ipswich Little Crown and Anchor
52.05621,1.16613
closed 10th January 1920
last owner/operator: cobbold
11 Curve St
grid reference TM 171 444
The Little Crown & Anchor is also listed at 1-3 Gibson Street, but the Curve Street address is what's shown in the 1909 Ipswich Rates book, so seems definitive.
Curve Street is the old name for the part of Rope Walk that runs east from what remains of Regent Street and curves round onto St Helen's St. Gibson Street ran south from Curve Street to the footpath which runs from the old Suffolk College site through to Back Hamlet. From the Gibson Street sign on the pub in our old photograph, we can infer that the pub stood on the south-east junction of the two roads.
The pub's closure date is recorded in the Borough Police licensed premises register 1903-1923.
On the 1871 census Samuel Gladwell (born 1837) was running the Little Crown & Anchor at 1/3 Lower Gibson Street, unfortunately he died the next year. (info from Mandy MacDonald)
Gallery
Historical interest
The Little Crown and Anchor, near the Borough Gaol, Ipswich, to be let, with immediate possession, licensed for the sale of ales, etc. For further particulars apply to Mr George Turner. Ipswich Journal, Jan 1870**
Died on 16 April 1895; at the Little Crown and Anchor, Ipswich, George William Rufford, in his 60th year.Ipswich Journal, Apr 1895**
Harry George Rufford is listed at the Little Crown & Anchor in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £15pa from Oct 1896 to May 1908 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Elisha Peake is listed at the Little Crown & Anchor in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £5pa from May 1909 (free first year) (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)