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Marquis Of Cornwallis
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The Marquis Of Cornwallis was situated
at 16 Old Foundry Road. This pub closed in 1954. |
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From 1987 to 2011 this building housed
the Ipswich TUC Unemployed Workers' Centre, later renamed Ipswich Community
Resource Centre, and a photo of it in its earlier role as a public house was
kept on display on one of notice boards. An elderly woman visited one day
and entertained us with her childhood memories when her uncle had been the
landlord of the Marquis of Cornwallis. She had been afraid to go upstairs as
her uncle had a stuffed crocodile mounted over the landing. We thought it
would be great to preserve this detail of the building's history but
painting a crocodile mural above the narrow twisting staircase proved too
great a challenge. The ICRC relocated to Black Horse Lane and evolved into
the Chapman Centre a few years later; leaving 16 Old Foundry Road to
reincarnate as a beauty parlour. |
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Sarah Sanford (March 2021) |
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