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The Pot Of Flowers was situated at 90-92 Bury Street. This pub is now in residential use.

I was born in Suffolk in Dec 1940 and lived in 48 Bury Street with my family for the duration of WW2. My mother was evacuated from London September 1940 with two young children and twins on the way. I'm one of them. My father, Alfred Glenister, remained in London serving in the AFS and came up to see his family once every two weeks. My parents local pub was The Pot of Flowers in Bury Street where first hand news that my father brought from London was eagerly consumed by the owners and patrons. Dad left the AFS and joined the family in Stowmarket to work at the USAAF Air base at Rattlesden in 1942. There he befriended an American airman, Bradley, and many times they shared the good company of other patrons in this cosy pub where the main topic of conversation was no doubt the war. Bradley and his crew were lost over Germany and thereafter whenever Dad was in the Pot of Flowers he always ordered two drinks, a beer and a scotch. When he finished his beer he drank the scotch for Bradley.

Ray Glenister (November 2016)

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