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Bury St Edmunds Royal Oak
Bury St Edmunds Royal Oak
South East, 52.25187,0.71408
Closed: 1970s
opened 1840s
3 Tayfen Rd
grid reference TL 853 649
The pub is shown on this OS town plan of 1855 (larger map).
Now demolished.
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
Gallery
Historical interest
Also listed at 20 Tayfen Road (in 1855) + 26 Tayfen Road (in 1869 and 1874).
Landlords
(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.
