android appIpswich Myrtle Inn
Ipswich Myrtle Inn
also traded as Blooming Myrtle
North East, 52.05078,1.1685
closed 1936
last owner/operator: cobbold
118 Fore Hamlet
grid reference TM 173 438
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
It's also listed at Bishop's Hill (in 1891).
Gardener's Arms 0.05 mile
Bin 93 0.35 mile
Isaacs 0.35 mile
Briarbank 0.37 mile
Lord Nelson 0.37 mile
Steamboat Tavern 0.42 mileHistorical interest
Timothy Murphy, an Irish tramp was found guilty of being drunk and disorderly and sentenced to 5 days imprisonment with hard labour. The case was proved by Thomas Parker, landlord of the Myrtle Inn, who stated that Murphy was worse for drink and that he brandished a stick at several persons in Fore Hamlet, Ipswich.Ipswich Journal, De 1885**
Thomas Parker is listed at the Myrtle in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £16pa from Mar 1876 to Sep 1900 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Uriah Parnell is listed at the Myrtle in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £16pa from Sep 1900 to Sep 1917 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(census information from Dudley Diaper)
(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.
