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CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 19th, 2021.
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Ipswich Great Eastern
also traded as GER, Albert, Royal Albert
closed 1996
42-44 Croft St
grid reference TM 163 434
Now residential.
It was called the Royal Albert, Wherstead Road, in 1851 census and the Albert, Albert Street, in 1861 census. In both cases it was listed next to the EUR.
It has also been listed at Wolsey St.
Was owned by Stewart & Patterson for some time.
The pub is shown (but not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Gallery
Silver Star 0.24 mile
Steamboat Tavern 0.29 mile
Smock 0.42 mile
Station Hotel 0.44 mile
Cult Café Bar 0.50 mile
Thomas Wolsey 0.51 mileHistorical interest
The Great Eastern Inn, opposite the old railway station, Stoke, Ipswich, to be let, with immediate possession. The above Inn has undergone complete renovation and repair. There will be no valuation of furniture or fixtures. For further particulars apply to Mr George Turner. Ipswich Journal, Jan 1870**
At the Ipswich Petty Sessions held in July 1875, the license for the Great Eastern Railway, Station Yard, was transferred from Thomas Isaac Brereton to Edward Canham. Ipswich Journal, July 1875**
Landlords
Footnote
The GER was formed in 1862 by amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway with smaller railways: the Norfolk Railway, the Eastern Union Railway, the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway, the East Norfolk Railway, the Harwich Railway, the East Anglian Railway and the East Suffolk Railway among others.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
