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BLACK BEAR

Location:- West corner of High Street and Black Bear Lane (sometimes Grafton Street)
currently (2024) the "Fountain" Chinese restaurant

Brewery or Owner:-finally- Tollemache & Cobbold.

Closed 7th November 1974, the licence was stored until surrendered in 1976. The premises were then bought and opened by Shamsur Rahman Choudurry, Abur Rahim and Johur Uddin, re-licensed as Moonlight Tandoori Restaurant on 8 February 1979. Now (2019) a Chinese restaurant, "The Fountain".

Tollemache & Cobbold brewery was the Cliff Brewery in Ipswich, which was closed in 1989. Not always popular, one venture "Husky Lager" was so bad even the brewery Chairman, John Cobbold, was reputed to have remarked that "it tasted like dog's piss" . It passed from the Cobbold family to Ellerman Shipping, thence to Barclay Brothers and on to Brent Walker who transferred brewing to Cameron's in West Hartlepool in 1989 before the Brent Walker collapse in 1991. After a management buy out it was then bought by Ridleys in 2002 and brewing transferred to Chelmsford. Arch local rivals Greene,King bought it out in 2005 and promptly scrapped it all.

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1787			Chapman's map
1823	William Jennings	unknown	Pigot
1830	William Jennings	unknown	Pigot
1839	Samuel James	unknown	Pigot and also Robson
1844	Samuel James	unknown	White
1850	Samuel James (Jan.1851 to Wheatsheaf, St Ives)	unknown	Cambridge Independent Press
1851	Thomas Bateman	unknown	Slater
1853	Thomas Bateman (committed suicide)	unknown	Bury and Norwich Post
1853	Julius Bohn (from Sept.)	unknown	Cambridge Independent Press
1856	Julius Bohn (went on to be Postmaster, bankrupt by 1863	unknown	Cambridge Independent Press
1861	Charles Stebbings	unknown	census
1865	Charles Stebbings	unknown	Post Office
1866	Charles Stebbings (moved on to Rutland Arms)	unknown	Cambridge Independent Press
1868	John White	unknown	Morris
1869	John White (to Sept 1873)	unknown	Cambridge Independent Press
1873	John Lancaster	unknown	Harrods and White
1874	John Lancaster	unknown	White
1885	John Lancaster	unknown	White
1886 July	Frederick Bailey	Frederick Bailey	Newmarket Journal
1889	Frederick Bailey	Frederick Bailey	Bury Free Press
1889	Charles Armstrong	Frederick Bailey	Bury Free Press
1891	Mrs Ann Lancaster	unknown	census
1892	Harry Lancaster (son of previous)	unknown	Tindall, also Kelly
1893	Harry Lancaster	unknown	Bury Free Press
1896	Thomas Munns	unknown	Kelly
1898	Thomas Munns (died April)	unknown	Bury Free Press
1898	Nellie Munns (Mary Ann ?)	unknown	Bury Free Press
1900	Mary Ann Munns	unknown	Kelly
1904	Mary Ann Jupp (remarried)	unknown	Kelly
1908	Mary Ann Jupp	unknown	Kelly
1911	Philip Spurling	Star Brewery Cambridge	census
1916	Philip Spurling	" "	Kelly
1932	Philip Spurling (died December)	" "	Bury Free Press
1933	Alice Emma Spurling (widow of above)	" "	Bury Free Press
1939	Frank Lawrence Payne	Tolly Cobbold bought Star Brewery 1934	1939 register
1949 Jul	Leslie Haffenden (from Wheatsheaf)		Tollemache & Cobbold
1955 Sep	Reuben Arthur Robinson
1961 Dec	William Garnum (from Wheatsheaf)	Tollemache & Cobbold
1969	Sheila Docking (October)	Tollemache & Cobbold	licensing records
1972	Austin Gallagher (July)	Tollemache & Cobbold	licensing records
1974	William Barlow (brewery Area Manager	Tollemache & Cobbold	licensing records
1976	Licence stored and then surrendered.

1895.. note changes to facade and roof

1910

Ready for annual outing -1950s ?

Another pub bites the dust

2010 as "Fountain" Restaurant

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