Bungay
Bungay on the Suffolk side of the Waveney valley is
proud of its
market-town
charm as well as having at least two fine lettering specimens. Below we
see the end wall of a public house which preserves name, date and
brewery:
'1923, THE SHIP INN, LACONS FINE ALES' in a shaped border; clearly a
cared-for
sign. The only part which now applies is the date of erection. The
mixing
of serif caps for the pub name and sans-serif caps for the brewery is
rather
effective.
Lacons Falcon Brewery in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk closed its doors in
1968
after a take-over by Whitbread (themselves no longer brewing these
days)
and the main buildings were soon demolised (the Whitbread depot on
North
Quay). Lacons was a name once associated with a long tradition of beer
brewing
in Norfolk. Drinkers could order a pint of Lacons mild and pale ale or
Oatmeal
stout in a pub around the corner or in a city centre alehouse as far
away
as London and Newcastle. Traces of the Lacons name and falcon motif can
sometimes be found on the walls of old pubs once owned by them, for
example
on The Butchers
Arms,
Knodishall. Our Links
page give the website of the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society,
for
more examples.
See also the Links list for
the Brewery History Society website and archive of signs. The famous
ceramic sign on the Blooming Fuschia in
Ipswich is now demolished.
Earsham Street in Bungay could be called rather twee by
the over-critical.
Here are delicatessens, bistros, a real live Post Office (see Cornhill
in Ipswich), ethnic crafts shops and bijou residences.
'LONDON
&
PROVINCIAL BANK LIMTD'
adorns a tiny, ornate former bank branch, now
a
residence.
See Beccles, Ipswich
Cornhill, Lowestoft and Felixstowe for more bank lettering examples
(non as distinguished as this) and Halesworth
(for a bank that nearly is).
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