android appFelixstowe Ferry Victoria
Felixstowe Ferry is part of the Felixstowe parish.
last updated Nov 21st, 2021.
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Felixstowe Ferry Victoria
also traded as Queen Victoria
East, 51.9868,1.38962
closed 31st October 2010
opened 1844 (built)
last owner/operator: Garden Build & Design
Ferry Rd, IP11 9RZ
grid reference TM 328 374
The pub can be seen on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
A popular restaurant and bar set close to the sea wall with good views out to sea from the upper windows. The original Victorian building was extended in the late 1990s. The restaurant offered locally caught fish.
The building was apparently purchased in April 2011, though to date nothing has been done with it and as late as June 2024 the building was still empty and abandoned.
Owner/operator: Arden Build & Design
Tastefully refurbished, no-frills pub. Good ale and food, including locally caught fish. An extension to the current building is planned.
Beers: Adnams Bitter, Broadside; Greene King IPA; Tetley BitterCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Ferry Boat Inn 0.06 mile
White Horse 1.45 miles
Fludyers Hotel 1.91 miles
Grosvenor 2.3 miles
Falcon 2.4 miles
Half Moon 2.4 milesHistorical interest
In 1888 listed at Bawdsey Ferry, Felixstowe (this seems to have been an older name for Felixstowe Ferry).
The 1904 Woodbridge licensing records show that the Victoria's license was issued in 1853. Whether this was when it was first licensed or when it got a full (ie not just beer) license isn't clear, though the latter seems more probable.
Died, on 13 Nov 1896, Susanna J.S. HAMSHIRE, at Felixstowe Ferry, aged 75 years, for a very long period, the respected landlady of the Victoria Inn.Ipswich Journal, November 21st 1896**
Originally known as The Royal Victoria Inn. Its local rival, the Ferry Boat Inn was a Cobbold House and the Victoria was Tollemache owned, having been acquired by the company in 1923 from the Ipswich Brewery of Catchpole & Co…
Landlords
(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 & book information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
