android appStowmarket Railway Tavern
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jan 14th, 2022.
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Stowmarket Railway Tavern
also traded as Railway Hotel & Refreshment rooms
South, 52.18968,0.99934
closed August 1978
opened 1847
Stowupland St
grid reference TM 051 588
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The pub is now a children's centre.
It may also be listed in Albion Street and Stowupland due to road and boundary changes. It's also listed in Station Road (in 1912 & 1922).
Gallery
Mill Bar & Grill 0.04 mile
Pickerel 0.06 mile
Little Wellington 0.12 mile
Queen's Head 0.17 mile
Stag 0.18 mile
Crown 0.22 mileHistorical interest
An advert in the The Bury and Norwich Post, Tuesday 13 Mar 1866****, lists this pub as part of the sale of Stonham Brewery together with 26 other premises.
Martin was Fined 5s and 7s. 6d. Costs for selling beer in prohibited hours on a Sunday.Bury & Norwich Post, 28 Dec 1869** (when George Martin was the landlord)
George Martin, of the Railway Tavern, Stowmarket, pleaded guilty to having his house open during prohibited hours. He said he had opened his house at 6.15 on Sunday morning for two men who worked at the Paper Mill and had completed a 24 hour shift. It was reported that Martin had not been summoned before and kept a respectable house, he was fined 1s and 7s 6d costs.…
Landlords
Footnote
Stowmarket station opened in Dec 1846 with the first train from Ipswich, Colchester and London arriving on 27th Dec before heading to Bury St Edmunds. The station building, designed by Frederick Barnes was not completed until 1849.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(detailed information from Neil Langridge - and also Brian Southgate - see their book "Stowmarket, Combs and Stowupland Pubs" published by Polstead Press in 2009)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** historical details supplied by Neil Langridge)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
