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Ipswich Coffee House
also traded as Bamford's Coffee House,
52.05859,1.15523
Closed: between 1840 and 1920
Tower St
grid reference TM 164 447 (approximate location)
Ornate historic coffee house with large meeting room on corner of Tower street and Tavern street.
Corner post and ornate frontage was lost in about 1815 when Tavern street was widened.
Gallery
Rep 0.05 mile
Bar A to Z 0.06 mile
Cricketers 0.07 mile
Three Wise Monkeys 0.08 mile
Cock & Pye 0.11 mile
Cosy Club 0.13 mileHistorical interest
Daniel Bamford, Innholder of Ipswich (inn not named) was convicted of suffering gambling at his House and was disabled from having a victualling licence for 3 years.Ipswich Journal, January 25th 1772***
Daniel Bamford, who keeps the Coffee House in Ipswich, had been disabled from selling Beer and Spiritous Liquors, for suffering Billiards to be played at his House in January, has had his Conviction removed and quashed by the Court.Ipswich Journal, June 6th 1772***
Ipswich races – will be on Mon, Tues and Wed the 1st, 2nd and 3rd July -…. An ordinary on Monday will be at the Long Room at Bamford’s coffee house, and on Tuesday and wed at Mr Samuel Ribban’s the Golden Lion, Ipswich…
Landlords
1772: Daniel Bamford ((at the Coffee House in Ipswich - 6 Jun***))
1783: Daniel Bamford ((coffee house keeper bankrupt - 11 Oct))
1784: George Gowing ((Coffee house in Ipswich - 10 Apr))
1805: Mr Gooding ((of the Coffee House, in Ipswich - Mar**))
1823: John Seaman ((St Mary Tower))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
