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Ipswich Ocean Queen
Ipswich Ocean Queen
also traded as New Ocean Queen
closed 19th June 1909
4 Salthouse St
grid reference TM 168 441
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.
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
The Ocean Queen and Original Ocean Queen are separate pubs.
The case against Samuel Hunt, of assaulting a young woman named Sabina Hunt, was dismissed. The Magistrates were told by Mrs Nunn, landlady of the Ocean Queen, Ipswich, that there was a little jangling (arguing), but no disturbance and certainly the defendant had not struck Sabina on the head with a quart mug.Ipswich Journal, Dec 1885**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
