Brandon Great Eastern Hotel
last updated Jul 9th, 2025.
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Brandon Great Eastern Hotel
also traded as Great Eastern Railway, Monza's Place
West, 52.45349,0.62296
Closed: Some time between 2018 and 2024
Bridge St, IP27 0AX
grid reference TL 783 871
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Hotel bar and Indian restaurant (called Monza's Place) located close to station. Accommodation available & spacious dining area also used for functions. Former real ale bar replaced with a cocktail bar.
Found closed and converted into a sushi restaurant and takeaway when visited in 2025. It isn't known when the pub closed, as it was last visited in 2018, though hygiene data show it must have been in 2024 or earlier.
Gallery
Ram 0.11 mile
Flintknappers 0.41 mile
Elveden Inn 5.0 miles
Brewer's Tap 5.1 miles
Chequers 6.7 milesHistorical interest
Owner/operator: free
Large old station hotel, with an increasing interest in real ale. Hopefully the selection of local micros will help fill the spacious bar. No food Sun.
Beer: Adnams (various); Woodforde's Great Eastern; guest beers (micros & independents).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Historically listed as a commercial hotel & posting house.
In 1888 a Corn Market was also listed at the hotel.
Landlords
Footnote
The Great Eastern Railway 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)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
