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Kessingland Queen's Head
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated May 28th, 2020.
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Kessingland Queen's Head
Closed between 2011 and 2016
26 High St, NR33 7QQ
grid reference TM 522 866
The Queen's Head was a locals' pub on the main road though the village.
We don't have an accurate closure date, but it was between our photographer's two visits in July 2011 and September 2016. In January 2020, an application was lodged to convert the building into holiday lets.
The pub is shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Gallery
Livingstone's 0.10 mile
Sailors Home 0.98 mile
Bell Inn 2.0 miles
Old Red House 2.0 miles
Ship Inn 2.5 miles
Oddfellows 2.5 milesHistorical interest
William Henry Emmery, an itinerant confectioner, was charged with stealing a brass candlestick, the property of Mr D Chipperfield, landlord of the Queens Head Inn, Kessingland on the 1st October 1860. Emmery had visited the Queen's Head on the day in question where he had two half pints of beer. Shortly after he left, the candlestick was missed and the police were informed. The same afternoon he was arrested in Lowestoft and searched and the missing article found in his trouser pocket, broken and battered. He said, "There it is no use denying it." He pleaded guilty saying he was very sorry, and was sentenced to 21 days hard labour in Beccles gaol.Ipswich Journal, October 1860**
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.
