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Ipswich Pot of Flowers
Ipswich Pot of Flowers
North West, 52.05013,1.16614
closed 1939
last owner/operator: cobbold
49-53 Wykes Bishops St
grid reference TM 171 438
The Pot of Flowers is also listed at 51 Bishop's Hill and strangely at 1 Wykes Bishop Street (in 1865 & 1869).
The 1909 Rates book seems to suggest that the pub was at the end of the street, as it shows 45 - 47 - Pot of Flowers - empty land then nothing. Close examination of the 1902 OS map shows a building the right shape in a location matching this close to the south-western end of Wykes Bishop Street, where we show it on the modern map.
James Crapnell, a seaman, and his wife Leticia Podd were publicans here sometime between 1871 and 1910; Herbert Skeet and their daughter Elizabeth may have taken over afterwards. Herbert later died aged 48 from cirrhosis at the Nightingale inn.
Gallery
Historical interest
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held in October 1875, the license for the Pot of Flowers, Wyck’s Bishop St, was transferred from Samuel Walker to Richard Grayston. Ipswich Journal, Oct 1875**
James Crapnell is listed at the Pot of Flowers in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £15pa from Mar 1899 to Sep 1910 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
William Fenner is listed at the Pot of Flowers in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £15pa from Sep 1910 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)
(detailed information by David Clow)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)