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The Nutshell
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
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.
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