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Felixstowe Grand
Felixstowe Grand
formerly Metropolis
West, 51.96014,1.35085
Premises are licensed, but not classed as a pub.
This category includes restaurants, hotels, etc where it's possible that drinks can only be had with a meal, for example. It also includes places like wine bars, that serve no beer of any kind on tap.
Note: nightclub
5 Bent Hill, IP11 7DG
grid reference TM 303 343
wine bar, opened 1897
All day Bar and Disco - regular late night DJ and comedy sessions till 2 or 3am
This nightclub is listed for historical reasons. We don't keep up-to-date information about it.
Facilities
- Special events
Railway station about 0.7 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
Owner/operator: free
[Metropolis]
no real aleCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
It was also listed in Undercliff Road (in 1922).
A licence for what was then called the Grand Hotel & Restaurant was granted in 1897 and Tollemache's Brewery purchased in March, the following year. The original Grand Hotel, formerly the Bent Hill Restaurant, was on Bent Hill, and extended by the acquisition of several houses in Undercliff Road. By 1910 it had become an hotel of 50 bedrooms, fitted with electric light & every convenience. It ceased to be a residential in the early 1950s and became renowned for the excellence, comfort and generally pleasing appointments of its bars…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic book information from Bob Mitchell)