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Beccles Crown
also traded as Six Bells
North East, 52.4545,1.56703
Closed: about 1998
opened 15th century
60 Blyburgate, NR34 9TQ
grid reference TM 424 900
It's shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Originally the Six Bells, it had become the Crown by 1829.
Planning permission for change of use to residential use was granted in May 1998, so it probably closed not too long before that.
Now residential.
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Old pub, now one room. No frills, popular with pool players.
Beer: Whitbread Boddington's Bitter.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Wine Vaults 0.20 mile
Ingate 0.24 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.27 mile
Old Tap 0.29 mile
Graze at the White Horse 0.31 mile
Butchers Arms 0.37 mileHistorical interest
After confirmation that Robert Le Grys of Beccles had died, a number of licensed property that he owned in town were advertised for sale the following week including: The White Lyon, the Adam and Eve, and the Crown in Bungay,...in the Occupation of Widow Lauton at the yearly Rent of £15.Ipswich Journal, October 10th 1767***
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852. See Suffolk Archives Ref: 559/1 - This sale included the Crown, Blyburgate, Beccles [landlord Frances Mills]
At the Beccles Petty Sessions held in June 1885, the license for the Crown was temporary endorsed to James Harber, late of Wrentham…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
