android appStowmarket Railway Tavern
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 21st, 2021.
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Stowmarket Railway Tavern
also traded as Railway Hotel & Refreshment rooms
closed August 1978
opened 1847
Stowupland St
grid reference TM 051 588
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).
The pub is shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Gallery
Mill Bar & Grill 0.03 mile
Pickerel 0.06 mile
Little Wellington 0.12 mile
Royal William 0.12 mile
Queen's Head 0.17 mile
Stag 0.18 mileHistorical interest
An advert in the The Bury and Norwich Post, Tuesday March 13th 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, December 28th 1869** (when George Martin was the landlord)
On Tuesday evening 1st March, a large party of gentlemen met at Mr John Martin’s of the Railway Tavern, to partake of the excellent fare he provides them once a year. Ipswich Journal, Mar 1870**
To be sold by auction the household furniture and sundry effects of the late Mr John Martin.Ipswich Journal, April 1875**
At the Stowmarket Petty Sessions of May 3rd 1875 the license for the Railway tavern was transferred to Mr Samuel Bloomfield.…
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.
