android appBrandon Great Eastern Hotel
Local licensing authority for Brandon is West Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Mar 31st, 2024.
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Brandon Great Eastern Hotel
formerly Great Eastern Railway, Monza's Place
West, 52.45349,0.62296
Cask Ale is understood not to be sold here.
Bridge St, IP27 0AX
grid reference TL 783 871
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.
Facilities
Accommodation available: 15 rooms
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Evening meals
Family friendly
Function room available to hire
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 0.0 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Brandon: 58 yards (53m)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Ram 0.11 mile
Flintknappers 0.41 mile
Elveden Inn 5.0 miles
Brewer's Tap 5.1 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
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)
