Ipswich Original Ocean Queen
Ipswich Original Ocean Queen
also traded as Ocean Queen Beer House, British Queen
52.05331,1.16092
closed 27th February 1941
Salthouse St
grid reference TM 168 441
The Ocean Queen and Original Ocean Queen are separate pubs.
The 1861 & 1871 censuses record the pub in Barnards Place, the 1881 census recorded the two pubs with three properties between them, and the 1891 census recorded the pub in Ocean Queen Yard.
The Ocean Queen had a dubious reputation in mid to late Victorian era with four adjacent two roomed cottages in the yard. Each cottage had a young female "housekeeper". The landlord also kept a menagerie of birds, monkeys and dogs.
The pub closed after most of building was destroyed on Feb 27, 1941 during an air-raid on town. Post war redevelopment saw a bank being built on site - now converted in 2013 to the Briarbank brewery.
Briarbank 0.00 mile
Lord Nelson 0.01 mile
Bin 93 0.02 mile
Isaacs 0.04 mile
Spread Eagle 0.15 mile
Dove Street Inn 0.25 mileHistorical interest
To be sold by auction all those two messuages and shops in the Fore Street, St Clement, now occupied by Mr Wade, hairdresser, and Mr Parker, leather-cutter; also six cottages, and a beer house called the British Queen, all adjoining.Ipswich Journal, November 1850**
Caroline Cole was found not guilty of stealing one florin and other monies from the till at the Ocean Queen, the property of Mr George Cullum. Ipswich Journal, May 1865**
Jacob William Moss, landlord of the Castle Beer House, Salt House Street, was charged with assaulting William Webb, landlord of the Original Ocean Queen. There had been a disturbance outside the Green Man Inn, late on a Friday night amongst some foreigners…
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Footnote
NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
