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Ipswich Grand Hotel
also traded as Bee Hive, Limmers
North, 52.0571,1.15409
Closed: post-1977
16 Buttermarket
grid reference TM 163 445
The Beehive is shown on this OS town plan of 1883.
The Grand Hotel is sometimes listed at "Old Buttermarket".
The Bee Hive Tap is listed next door until at least 1871.
The Bee Hive closed in 1893 and was demolished. A new pub of same name opened at Majors Corner in about 1900.
The Grand hotel had a resident orchestra and seems to have run from about 1900 onwards until eventually being converted into shops. Curiously, the 1909 Ipswich Rates book has it marked "late", implying that it closed some time in the subsequent couple of years.
During the 1920s and 30s, especially when being run by Bill Read, this was a popular venue for many off-duty airmen from nearby RAF Martlesham,…
Gallery
Cosy Club 0.03 mile
Rep 0.07 mile
Falcon 0.08 mile
Swan & Hedgehog 0.08 mile
Plough 0.10 mile
Cock & Pye 0.10 mileHistorical interest
All persons having any claims or demands upon the estate of James Crisp, late of the Unicorn Inn, Ipswich, deceased, are requested to send an account of their respective claims to Mr Thomas Crisp, of the Bee Hive Inn, Ipswich, his Executor, to whom all persons standing indebted to the deceased, are required to pay the amount of their several debts, within one month.Ipswich Journal, June 1830**
A notice in the Ipswich Journal of December 1835 states: T Crisp, Wine and Spirit Merchant of the Bee Hive Inn, Ipswich, solicits the inspection of the public to his stock of spirits, but particularly to an article denominated Crisp's Champagne brandy. It is manufactured solely for TC in accordance with the system of an eminent Brandy distiller in France…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** information from Stuart Ansell)
