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Hadleigh Anchor Inn
also traded as Barley Mow, Standard
North East, 52.04802,0.94875
Closed: about 1927
opened about 1661
Bridge St
grid reference TM 022 429
This pub managed to go through a few names:
- Between 1661 & 1835 it was called the Standard**
- Between 1837 & 1871 it was called the Barley Mow**
- Between 1871 & 1927 it was called the Anchor**
Elisabeth Scrivener is recorded at the Barley Mow, in another pub located in Benton Street in 1844 (later called the Falcon) but by 1855 she is recorded here when this beer house was also called the Barley Mow.
It was rebuilt by 1892, when it was recorded as the Anchor.
Gallery
King's Head 0.28 mile
Eight Bells 0.38 mile
George 0.38 mile
Cock 0.45 mile
Bell 1.61 miles
Queen's Head 1.77 milesHistorical interest
Three cocoa matting weavers, Baskett, Chisnall, and Grimsey were in the Anchor, Hadleigh, drunk and making a great disturbance, they kicked and ill treated a man named Farthing and struck the landlady. When they refused to leave, landlord Frederick Cutting called the police who ejected the men. Grimsey and Chisnal were fined 12s each including costs and Basket 11s including costs. Ipswich Journal, June 1875**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** Historical details from Bob Mitchell)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
