Felixstowe Bath Hotel

Burned down on April 28th, 1914 after incendiary devices were planted by militant Suffragettes. See http://www.btinternet.com/~john.harrowven/PC/politics.htm for the full story.

However, the date given on that site may not be correct, as the Felixstowe Rate Book records that it burned down in 1912.

Interestingly, at the time of the fire, it was operated by Cobbold's but owned by Tollemache.

Formerly it was known as Hamilton Arms and was renamed to the Bath Hotel in the 1860s. It may also have been at one time the Hamilton temperence Hotel (a time at which it won't have been of great interest to visitors to this site).

The 1904 Woodbridge licensing records show that the Bath's license was issued in 1853. Whether this was when it was first licensed or when it got a full (ie not just beer) license isn't clear, though the latter seems more probable.

Shown here on the 1903 OS map. The pub immediately to the south of the hotel was probably the Bath Tap.