The Thomas Cobbold established a brewing business East Anglia in 1723. It remained a family business of the Cobbold family until 1957, when they merged the business with that of the Tollemache family, creating Tolly Cobbold.[1] The brand came to dominate the hospitality industry in Ipswich where traces of their name can still be found on a number of buildings.[2]
Frank Woolnough, formerly the curator of Ipswich Museum, recognised the historic interest of the Cobbold "Inns and Taverns" remarking he preferred such words to the term "public house" which he regarded as more recent and common. He wrote the Souvenir of the bi-centenary of the Cliff Brewery 1723–1923 published in 1923 under the name Felix Walton. This contained "A Selection of Ancient and Historical Inns attached to the Cliff Brewery".[3]
Before Tolly Cobbold were taken over by Ellerman Lines in 1977,[4] the company owned a large number of public houses across East Anglia.[5]
Image | Name of pub | Area | TC | Dates | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cock and Pye | Central Ipswich | TC | Before 1689 – still open | |||
Lord Nelson | Ashbocking | TC | Closed in 1984 | Demolished[6] | ||
Margaret Catchpole | South East Ipswich | TC | 1936 – still open | Grade II* listed building | ||
Steam Packet | South East Ipswich | TC | closed 18 September 1960 | |||
Swan Inn, Alderton | Alderton, Suffolk | TC | closed during Covid pandemic | Also a restaurant | ||
Woolpack | Central Ipswich | TC | still open | Grade II listed building |
References
edit- ^ "Tolly Cobbold Timeline". Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ van Loon, Borin. "Ipswich Historic Lettering: Off Licences". www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk. Borin Van Loon. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Woolnough, Frank (1923). Souvenir of the bi-centenary of the Cliff Brewery 1723–1923. ipswich: east Anglian Daily Times.
- ^ "Tolly Cobbold, Ipswich". Rate Beer. ratebeer.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ Tolly Cobbold Information Handbook. Ipswich: Tollemache & Cobbold Breweries ltd. 1975.
- ^ "Lord Nelson, Ashbocking". www.closedpubs.co.uk. Closed Pubs. Retrieved 9 March 2022.