The Nutshell

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

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Hazle Ceramics
The Nutshell
Open Edition: Smallest Pub
on Bury St Edmunds Pub

 This Grade 2 listed building at 17 The Traverse dates from the early 1800s. For years it was a fruiterer and maybe got its name from selling coconuts. The first beer was served in 1867 and it became part of King’s Brewery in 1874.

 Sweat shirts with “Smallest Pub” are sold here. A dried black cat over the bar may have been put in a wall for good luck!
Is the black cat in top left window of the ceramic miaowing, “Get Me Out of Here... !”

UK/Europe £49.50
Rest of World £43.04

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The Smallest Pub Debate
Other contenders for the title include The Smith’s Arms near Dorchester, where a blacksmith was licenced by passer-by King Charles II who thirsted for a glass of porter! Brighton’s Hole in the Wall claims to have a certificate... The old Signal Box at Cleethorpes is 8 x 8 feet and a pub in Shepreth, Cambs is said to be 3 x 3 feet. But The Nutshell’s website still calls itself Britain’s Smallest Pub...

 A blue tit on the top and a great tit to the left 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.