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Wickham Market Chaise & Pair
Wickham Market Chaise & Pair
South, 52.15724,1.36658
closed 19th August 1911
Lower St
grid reference TM 303 563
The Chaise & Pair is shown on this old OS map from 1883 (larger map).
The license was allowed to expire on August 19th, 1911 as part of a scheme to reduce the number of alcohol licenses. The building is now residential. Some old maps suggest the pub filled the entire building in our photo, others that it may have just been the grey section.
Gallery
Historical interest
To be left and entered upon immediately, the Chaise & Pair at Wickham Market… enquire GB Keer of Framlingham.Ipswich Journal, 23 Aug 1794
To be sold by auction, by direction of the trustees for sale of the Will of Mrs Mary Ann Hill, deceased, a full licensed public house, situated in Bridge Street, Wickham Market, adjoining the Iron Works and the gas works, known as the Chaise and Pair, with ample outbuildings and large garden, the whole having an area of nearly half an acre. Now let on a yearly tenancy to Messrs. Bridges, Cuthbert and Co., brewers at Ipswich, at £10 per annum. In August that year it was reported that the Chaise and Pair had been sold to a Mr J Polls, Ipswich, for £690.Ipswich Journal, July 1885**
Landlords
Footnote
A chaise literally means chair and usually is an old reference to people who could afford their own carriage and horses.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Closure date from Woodbridge licensing records.
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.