android appSudbury Half Moon
Sudbury Half Moon
West, 52.03892,0.72669
Closed: between 1920 and 1970
35 or 36 Gregory St
grid reference TL 871 413
An un-named pub is shown at this location on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century (interactive map), it's assumed to have been the Half Moon. If you can confirm or refute this, please let us know.
The Half Moon was demolished some time after 1960.
Courtyard Tap 0.06 mile
Wagon 0.08 mile
Lady Elizabeth 0.14 mile
Prince of Wales 0.18 mile
Angel 0.19 mile
Grover & Allen 0.20 mileHistorical interest
At the Sudbury Petty Sessions held on the 7th January 1875, Mr J H Scott, the new landlord of the Half Moon beer house, St Gregory Street, was granted a temporary license, in the place of Mr E Wheeler.Ipswich Journal, January 1875**
Reference to Mrs Eliza COOPER, of the Half Moon Inn, Sudbury & Ernest BELL, son of the landlord of the Horn Inn (now called North Street Tavern).Bury & Norfolk Post & Suffolk Herald, April 3rd 1883**
Landlords
1851: Joseph Wheeler ((Furniture Broker, Retailer of Beer, Gregory St., pub not named, Head/Married/37y/born Sudbury))
1855: Joseph Wheeler ((Beerhouse Keeper, Gregory St., pub not named))
1861: Edward Wheeler ((Beer Seller, Head/Married/56y/born Sudbury))
1865: Edward Wheeler ((Beer retailer, Gregory St., pub not named))
1871: Edward Wheeler ((Licensed victualler, Half Moon Beerhouse, Head/Married/66y/born Sudbury))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
