Bury St Edmunds Royal Oak

Bury St Edmunds Royal Oak

South East, 52.25187,0.71408

Closed: about 1977

opened 1840s

3 Tayfen Rd

grid reference TL 853 649

The pub is shown on this OS town plan of 1855 (larger map).

old OS map

Now demolished. Planning permission to convert this pub to a flat and offices was lodged in February 1977, so it probably closed not long before that.

A report in the Bury & Norwich Post* in 1857 (January 13th) when Thomas Balls was landlord gave him as a witness in a case of a stolen pig.

A report in the Bury & Norwich Post* in 1860 (November 20th) announced the sudden death, in his 45 year, of Mr Burch of the Royal Oak, Tayfen Road.

Sometime after WWI my Great Grandparents ran the Royal Oak in Tayfen Road and my dad spent some of his childhood living there.Chris Argent

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(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)

(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)

(* historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)

Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

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