Designed by Sir William Edis, the hotel received its first full licence on 7th April 1903, despite initial objections. The 1st licence
(to Brewery management) was issued to Mr. Cumberland and then on 6th April 1902 to the Star Brewery Chaiman Mr Charles Armstrong Transferred from the Star Brewery , Cambridge to Tolly Cobbold of Ipswich From Mike Petty's Newmarket Scrapbook :- "5th January 1912 - The manager of the Coronation Hotel, Newmarket was awakened by his dog and found smoke coming into the room through the chinks in the doorway. On opening the door he was met by a volume of smoke pouring in from the corridor. Finding the usual outlet to the street barred he went round to the back and lowered himself by a knotted sheet from a window. The heat of the flames cracked the liqueur and spirit bottles which added to the flames but six dozen bottles of Bass, when broken, assisted in extinguishing them." In the Sedgewick Museum are some bones of straight tusked elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, aurochs, bison, red deer and fallow deer. These came from a pit close to Newmarket Station, now occupied by the Coronation Hotel, as Recorded by Marr (1926, 115). Hughes (1916, 16) described "beds of gravel and sand with lenticular masses of kneaded-up chalk and grey clay with chalk and flint at its base". He thought the bones were probably derived from an earlier deposit. At one time there was a sale yard for livestock next door, sold in 1912 by Holland and Sons. The last few years of its existence it became the "Royal Coronation Hotel". In October 1999 the owners, Pubmaster, submitted planning application to convert the premises into 8 flats with two houses on the car park.
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Year | Licensee | Owner | source |
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1903 Jun | Alfred Mellon | Star Brewery | Cambridge Daily News |
1903 Oct | George Ricks | " " | Cambridge Daily News |
1905 June | F.W.Hyde | " " | postcard |
1910 | Ferdinand Willson | " " | census |
1913 | Ferdinand Willson was dealing with the Official Receiver | " " | Gazette |
1913 | lease sold | " " | Cambridge Independent Press |
1916 | John Henry William Norman | " " | Kelly |
1939 | John H.W.Norman | Tolly Cobbold bought Star Brewery in 1934 | 1939 register |
1946 Jan 13 | John H.W.Norman | Tolly Cobbold | Newmarket Journal |
1946 Jan 3 | Alfred Kenneth Heaton | " " | Newmarket Journal |
? | Josephine Betty Luscombe and Beverley Noela Hillier | " " | Newmarket Journal |
1950 Jan 19 | Mrs Beverley Noela Hillier - partnership dissolved) | " " | Newmarket Journal |
1961 Mar | Henry Willis | Tolly Cobbold | Newmarket Journal |
1961 Aug | Dennis Lyons | Tolly Cobbold | " " |
1966 May | Joseph Taylor | Tolly Cobbold | " " |
1966 Oct | Irvine Waterfall | Tolly Cobbold | " " |
1990 Jan 10 | Irvine Waterfall | Tolly Cobbold | " " |
1990 Jan 10 | David Pike | Pubmaster | |
1992 Nov 12 | Erich Ketternacker | Pubmaster | Newmarket Journal |
1997 | Erich Ketternacker | Pubmaster | Newmarket Journal |
1997 Jul | Lenny and Elaine Murray | Pubmaster | Newmarket Journal |
1999 Oct | application to convert to flats | Pubmaster | Newmarket Journal |
c 1910 Cambridge Independent Press 20 June 1913 sale notice It got a bit windy on 3rd January 1978 (Coronation in background) the day after tornado of 3rd January 1978 Coronation Court 2018
Ferdinand Wilson declared bankrupt