The Nutshell

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Introduction
Issued at the 2008 Collectors’ Day, with the bar measuring just 15 x 7 feet The Nutshell is in the Guinness Book of Records as the Smallest Pub in England. It has another record for holding 104 people and a terrier dog!

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Hazle Ceramics
The Nutshell
Open Edition
Painted as Smallest Pub
on Edmundsbury Nutshell

 This Grade 2 listed building at 17 The Traverse dates from the mid 1800s. It is timber-framed and has one room on each floor. Excavation gave no evidence of an earlier core.

 Sweat shirts with the “Smallest Pub” are sold here. The model’s top window has the dried black cat that is hanging over the bar. This was found inside a wall and may have been put there for good luck!

UK/Europe £49.50
Rest of World £42.13

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The Smallest Pub?
Other contenders for this coveted name include The Smith’s Arms near Dorchester. The former blacksmith was granted a licence by passer-by King Charles II who thirsted for a glass of porter! Then Brighton’s Hole in the Wall claims to have a certificate... But the official Guinness title, for the UK and the world, is likely to pass to the converted Signal Box at Cleethorpes, a mere 8 x 8 feet. Size matters!

 A blue tit with yellow breast and a great tit below peck the coconut.

 The Nutshell is tied to Greene King Brewery, also in Bury St Edmunds. The adjoining Museum above traces the world history of beer-making.