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Ipswich EUR
also traded as Eastern Union Railway, Railway Hotel, Crofts
South West, 52.0469,1.15356
closed 2005
opened about 1850
36-38 Croft St, IP2 8EB
grid reference TM 163 434
The pub is shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Sadly the nicely etched windows were removed early in the 21st century, but the distinctive exterior tiling has been retained.
Reported in Albert Street in 1861.
Called Crofts in 1996-97.
Owner/operator: free
no real aleCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Silver Star 0.24 mile
Steamboat Tavern 0.28 mile
Smock 0.43 mile
Station Hotel 0.45 mile
Thomas Wolsey 0.51 mile
Isaacs 0.51 mileHistorical interest
A report in the Ipswich Journal** in Oct 1850 states :
Mr Amos Fisk, EUR Hotel, opposite the Railway Station, Ipswich, is retiring from the management of the above Inn and wishes to recommend his successor Mr Henry Flaxman, formerly of the King's Arms Inn, Woodbridge.Ipswich Journal, October 1850**
Fuller was given 3 months for the unlawful wounding of his wife. The couple had been together for 35 years and the judge thought that 3 months in jail help resolve his drink problem.Bury & Norwich Post, February 1st 1887** (when Francis Bletsoe Fuller was the landlord)
George Willson is listed at the EUR hotel in the Cobbolds & co Tenant rent book at £10pa from Feb 1887 to Sep 1917 (Suffolk Archives doc ref HA231/5/3)
Landlords
Footnote
The Eastern Union Railway was opened for public passenger traffic in June 1846 from an end-on junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Colchester to a terminus at Ipswich which now forms part of the Great Eastern Main Line. Ipswich station later moved to the site of the present station after the tunnel was completed.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
