android appIpswich Ocean Queen
Ipswich Ocean Queen
also traded as New Ocean Queen
52.05338,1.16086
closed 19th June 1909
4 Salthouse St
grid reference TM 168 441
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The Ocean Queen was once known as a resort of prostitutes and dubious characters. In the 1870s it comprised a public house and four adjacent two roomed cottages in a small yard, most of which could be shut off from the street. Some of the buildings were let out furnished, some not. The landlord also reputedly kept a menagerie of birds, monkeys and dogs. By the 1891 census the four cottages each had a young female "housekeeper" in residence.
The pub was destroyed by a Second World War bomb. It was replaced by a Lloyd's bank, which in more recent years was converted into the Briarbank Brewery and tasting room.
The closure date is recorded in the Borough Police licensed premises register 1903-1923.
Briarbank 0.01 mile
Lord Nelson 0.01 mile
Bin 93 0.03 mile
Isaacs 0.04 mile
Spread Eagle 0.15 mile
Cult Café Bar 0.23 mileHistorical interest
The Ocean Queen and Original Ocean Queen are separate pubs.
William Keeble, landlord of the New Ocean Queen, Salthouse Street, identified a curb and bit that had been found in the possession of James Rowe, by a repair he had made to it using a piece of ginger beer wine. Rowe, a sewerage worker, had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly when the bit was found in his pocket. He was fined 6s with 5s costs for the drink related crime and 14 days imprisonment for the theft. Ipswich Journal, Sep 1860**
The case against Samuel Hunt, of assaulting a young woman named Sabina Hunt, was dismissed…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
