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Ipswich Great Eastern
also traded as GER, Albert, Royal Albert
South East, 52.04693,1.15325
closed 1996
42-44 Croft St
grid reference TM 163 434
The pub can be seen on this OS town plan from about 1800 (larger map).
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.
Owner/operator: Inntrepeneur
Closed and for sale.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Silver Star 0.24 mile
Steamboat Tavern 0.29 mile
Smock 0.42 mile
Station Hotel 0.44 mile
Thomas Wolsey 0.51 mile
Isaacs 0.52 mileHistorical interest
Ale and Stout House, in Ipswich, to be put off immediately, on account of bad health, in a great thoroughfare where a good business may be done. Coming in easy. Apply to Thomas Jarman, Great Eastern Hotel, Stoke, Ipswich. Ipswich Journal, Nov 1865**
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.
