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Beccles Victoria Arms
Beccles Victoria Arms
also traded as Queen Victoria
South, 52.45333,1.56938
closed June 1907
23 Ingate
grid reference TM 426 899
Adrian Pye tells us
The Victoria Arms and Blacksmith's Arms is the same pub.
It seems that while William Warren was the landlord the name Blacksmith's Arms was used unofficially but all licenses issued were in the name of the Victoria Arms. William Warren died in 1899 and thereafter it was again called the Victoria Arms.
In 1866 the Victoria Arms was known to be a pub but there are no earlier records. Closure was around 1907.
The map location is based on what's now 23 Ingate, on the assumption that the numbering scheme is unchanged. The building now at number 23 cannot be the original pub building as it sits back from the line of houses, which was not the case on the OS map of the end of the 19th century.
It evidently closed between June 18th and 24th 1907 as on the former date it's listed as for sale as the Victoria Arms, but on the latter as "formerly known as the Victoria".
Historical interest
The 1879 Kelly's Directory shows a William Warren as a blacksmith in Blyburgate Street.
The 1891 landlord is at the Blacksmiths Arms in 1881.
Colchester Brewery Co is to sell the Victoria Arms, Ingate.East Suffolk Gazette, June 18th 1907
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Some information from records transcribed by Foxearth & District Local History Society.