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last updated 08/02/2020Barking Blackbirds (Birds)
also traded as as: Blackbird
historical closure era: mid 20th centuryopened 1860s
closed 1965
Barking Rd
Now residential, the Blackbirds was originally only licensed as a beerhouse; it only got a full license on February 8th 1956, according to the Stow licensing records. It was known locally just as "the Birds".
It's shown here as a beerhouse on an OS map of the 1890s. (larger map)
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1891 census information from Dudley Diaper)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Opening date from A Survey of Suffolk Parish History.
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.