St Matthews Street, Ipswich looking towards the town centre in the 1950s. The Civic Drive, St Matthews Street roundabout is now close to where the photographer was standing. St Matthews Church Lane off to the right of this view is now where hundreds of vehicles every day enter Civic Drive. At the corner of the lane was the Queens Head public house. All of the buildings on the left of the street were demolished when the area was redeveloped and the road widened in the mid 1960s.
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Ipswich: Lost Inns, Taverns and Public Houses
The new book by David Kindred
The book is a remarkable record of some 400 public houses, inns and beer houses. The entries are organised into two sections. The first describes the public houses that have been closed since 1919 and includes photographs of the establishments, while the second lists closures from the eighteenth century to the First World War punctuated with photographs where available. Old Pond Publishing
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