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Bungay Duke's Bridge
Bungay Duke's Bridge
also traded as Bridge Inn
Closed between 1925 and the early 1930s
Beccles Rd
grid reference TM 344 894
This inn is also listed at Duke's Bridge. The building is shown as Dukesbridge House (not marked as a pub or beerhouse right back as far as available OS maps go (1885)), which does look somewhat pub-like. If you can confirm or refute the idea that this building was the pub, please get in touch.
The 1909 town Rates book has an entry in Beccles Road for "Late the Duke", which seems as if it refers to this. The entry implies that the pub closed some time between 1909 and about 1930, as the book was in use for roughly that period. Since we have directory entries up to 1925, that would seem to narrow the closure date down.
Gallery
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
To be sold by auction, by the instructions from the Executors of the late Mr George Brighton, the desirable freehold public house, known as the Duke's Bridge, Beccles Road, Bungay, with sheds, stable, outbuildings, garden, and an enclosure of luxuriant meadow land adjoining, let to Messrs. Bullard and Sons, on lease, expiring at Michaelmas, 1887, at a rental of £32 a year; also with 5 cottages and gardens adjoining.Ipswich Journal, May 1885**
(The properties were sold to a Mr Brighton for £550)
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
