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last updated Dec 30th, 2021.
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Kessingland Queen's Head
North West, 52.41962,1.70763
Closed: between 2011 and 2016
26 High St, NR33 7QQ
grid reference TM 522 866
The pub is shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
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.
Owner/operator: Inntrepeneur
Basic locals pub.
Beers: ScotCo Webster's Yorkshire Bitter; guest beer (summer).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Livingstone's 0.10 mile
Sailors Home 0.98 mile
Old Red House 2.0 miles
Bell Inn 2.1 miles
Coach House 2.4 miles
Ship Inn 2.5 milesHistorical interest
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852. See Suffolk Archives Ref: 559/1 - This sale included the Queens Head in The Street, Kessingland [landlord Daniel Chipperfield]
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…
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.
