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Ipswich Times Brewery Inn (Old Times brewery Tap)
52.05544,1.16298
Closed: about 1938
last owner/operator: tollemache
3-7 Borough Rd
grid reference TM 169 443
The Times Brewery was also located at this site during the mid-Victorian period.
Borough Road no longer exists - it was the part of what is now Grimwade Street and ran from Rope Walk to Waterworks Street (now Star Lane.)
The pub is recorded as the "Old Times Brewery Tap" in the 1909 Rating records.
The buildings were demolished soon after closure in 1938.
Hank's Dirty 0.08 mile
Dove Street Inn 0.08 mile
Waterlily 0.11 mile
County of Suffolk 0.12 mile
Spread Eagle 0.15 mile
Bin 93 0.16 mileHistorical interest
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held on the 18th November 1875, the license for the Times brewery tap, Borough Road, was transferred from George Levett to Louisa Levett.Ipswich Journal, Nov 1875**
In 1937 the pub was listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 pubs that were retailing beer that they were brewing.
Landlords
1869: Frederick Gillmore Vincent ((& brewer) (Times brewery, Borough rd))
1875: Louisa Levett ((license for the Times brewery tap, Borough Road, was transferred from George Levett - Nov**))
1888: George Levitt ((beer retailer - pub not named))
1891: George Levett ((Brewery Inn, Head/Widower/76y/born Woodbridge))
1891: George Levett ((beer house - pub not named))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
