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Glemsford Beeton's Beerhouse
Closed unknown era
Lion Rd?
grid reference TL 826 481 (approximate location)
No details, but known to have been open in 1896, as evidenced by this report[1] in the South-West Suffolk Echo:
April 4th 1896Robert Reeve, a police sergeant stationed at Glemsford, was charged with assaulting Thomas Brown Porter, a mat trimmer from Glemsford. The complainant said he was walking to Beeton's beerhouse when he saw the Sergeant standing near the Plough Inn, the Sergeant ran after him and grabbed him by the throat and threw him violently to the ground, complainant said he not say he would like a a go at the Sergeant and the Sergeant did not say that he had had enough of him for one night…
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Black Lion 0.11 mile
Angel 0.38 mile
Bull 1.58 miles
George 1.67 miles
Five Bells 1.70 miles
Black Lion 2.5 milesHistorical interest
This pub is probably the Cherry Tree, based on the landlords' names and the location indictated by the censuses.
Footnote
[1] News report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
