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Don't Say No Synopsis

From friendship to love… LeoFiat, whom we know in the series TharnType 7 Years of Love, has now removed the barriers in front of their emotions and opened up to each other. However, while their relationship that lasted more than 10 years was 'friendship', they do not know much about how to be a 'lover'... How will this relationship continue when one is a good boy and one is a bad boy? Is it possible to turn a rebellious child into a good lover?

Don't Say No Details

Drama: Don't Say No

Country: Thailand

Don t Say No The Series how many episodes?

Episodes: 12

Aired: Aug 6, 2021 - Oct 22, 2021

Aired On: Friday

Original Network: GMM One, LINE TV, LINE TV, LINE TV

Duration: 50 min.

Native Title: เมื่อหัวใจใกล้กัน

Also Known As: DSNTheSeries , Don't Say No The Series: When the hearts are close together

Genres: Romance, Drama, Gay Romance, LGBTQ+, Friends To Lovers, Adapted From A Novel, Gay Character, Sports

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Ipswich: North-east view from the Town Hall, 1868: note by B. P. Grimsey, c.1890 by David Gobbitt

From Ipswich Past and Present by William Vick (re the first of 36 views in volume I, bound in 1890)

For ease of reference, numbers have been added to some of the houses on the north side of the Cornhill and Tavern Street in an edited version of the photograph.

Benjamin Page Grimsey gives several names but only one date. Many more are provided in the extensive notes after his information:

THIS was taken in 1868, and presents the Churches of St. Mary Tower and St. Lawrence, and the North side of Tavern Street, as principal features, with Messrs. Boby & Jannings's well-known jewellery shop at the South-West corner, and Messrs. Frederick Fish & Son's Warehouses to Suffolk House standing North and South at the South-East corner of such Street. The house that attracts attention from the target thereon, now Mr. F. A. Bales' (Gunsmith), was previously his Father's, and used in the same business; before that the notable book-shop of Mr. Robert Deck; and earlier, Mr. Batley's. The next, now Messrs. Chapman & Pain's (Chemists), was previously Mr. S. B. Chapman's, and earlier, Mr. Mendham's, in the same business. The next, now Mr. Alfred Godball's (Music-seller), was previously Messrs. Rees & Gripper's, and earlier, Mr. J. M. Burton's Printing and Bookselling Establishment. The next, now Messrs. Freeman, Hardy, and Willis's (Boot-sellers), was previously Mr. John Talwyn Shewell's, and then Messrs. Shewell and Smith's, and later, Mr. Robert Smith's, Woollen Drapers. The next two, now respectively The City Clothing Company's Tailoring Establishment, and Messrs. Wainwright & Son's Wholesale Grocery Warehouse, were together formerly the business establishment of the late Mr. Jeremiah Head; then of the late Mr. Charles Burton; and since then of the late Mr. Samuel Wainwright, in the said Wholesale business. The next, now Mr. George Wootton's Hair-cutting Establishment, was formerly Mr. Harry Gross's, and earlier, Mr. Thomas Archer's Ironmonger's shop, and in Mr. Archer's time the only place where skins of parchment for deeds and leases, and papers for bills of exchange and promissory notes, with Government stamps denoting the payment of the duties thereon, were obtainable in Ipswich. The next, now Messrs. Stead & Simpson's (Boot-sellers), was formerly Mr. E. T. Read's (Woollen Draper), and previously Mr. W. L. Bloomfield's (Tailor), and Mr. Charles Silburn's Italian Warehouse. This brings us to the Bank Buildings, and is as far as we can clearly discern.

The photograph is followed by observations on the jewellers Boby & Jannings (Schulen & Boby before 1884) and the drapers Frederick Fish & Son (just Frederick Fish until 1878).

15 Cornhill (now Lloyds Bank)

The demarcation of Tavern Street and the Cornhill was rather fluid, even after the introduction of official house numbers in 1860. Before naming the shopkeepers on the north side of Tavern Street, B. P. Grimsey focuses on the target of gunsmith George William Bales (1807-1881) and his son Frank Alfred Bales (1853-1931) at 15 Cornhill. Their sporting goods substituted Robert Deck's books in 1856 when G. W. Bales moved across the road, making space on the corner of Tavern Street for Schulen & Co. (Ipswich Journal, 3 May 1856, p. 2; and Suffolk Chronicle, 28 June 1856, front page). The curious character of Robert Deck (1789-1868), who rented a room here as early as 1808 and took over Charles Waldegrave Battely's business in 1816, is catalogued by Tony Copsey in The Ipswich Book Trades (2011, p. 82).

Today the target is long gone but the decorative arch above a central window is still visible in Google's Street View. Lloyds Bank's cash machines now front the ground floor, which was occupied by a branch of the "London" tailors T. C. Palmer from 1902 (East Anglian Daily Times, 4 October, p. 6), by the hatters and boot specialists Jacksons' Ltd from 1908 (East Anglian Daily Times, 1 September, p. 3) and by the boot makers William Timpson Ltd from c.1932 (Kelly's Directory of Ipswich and Neighbourhood, 1932, p. 74) to c.1976 (Kelly's Ipswich directory, 1975, p. 347, and Ipswich Borough Council planning application 77/00007/LBC, 1977, changing use from shop to banking offices).

The upper floors at 15 Cornhill housed various tenants, notably the Royal Typewriter Company, managed by Samuel Robert Batson (1858-1932). His eponymous company, S. R. Batson Limited, outlived him here or nearby under the direction of Bramley Frank Burrell (1890-1969) who moved it to the Butter Market in the 1940s and to Barrack Corner by 1959 (Who's Who in Ipswich , pp. 10 & 66).

17 Cornhill (now Deichmann)

In the 1868 photograph the name of the Phoenix Fire Office is emblazoned along the top storey of 17 Cornhill. The insurance company's agent at this address was presumably the chemist, bank secretary and magistrate Samuel Belcher Chapman (1800-1880), one of the Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk whose character was sketched by Richard Gowing for the Suffolk Mercury and re-printed in 1875 (chapter XXII, pp. 148-153). His Ipswich and Suffolk Savings' Bank was here until 1877 (Ipswich Journal, 3 November, pp. 5 & 6). He inherited the property from his father-in-law, William Mendham, a grocer who died in 1838, shortly after confirming a covenant by signing a codicil to his will (PCC 1838).

Samuel's sons William (1825-1890) and Henry (1826-1907) were running the pharmacy by 1851. From 1881 (East Anglian Daily Times, 3 May, p. 2) until his retirement in 1891 (East Anglian Daily Times, 11 April, pp. 4 & 5) Henry was trading as Chapman and Pain in partnership with Arthur Pain, who took a new partner, R. H. E. Bayles, in 1896 (East Anglian Daily Times, 31 March, p. 4) forming Pain and Bayles. Three years earlier Arthur had his premises modernised, installing electric lighting and removing the old stone columns from the frontage (East Anglian Daily Times, 4 February 1893, p. 5). His announcement of Pain and Bayles in 1896 solicited "a continuance of the liberal patronage bestowed upon himself and his predecessors for the past One Hundred Years". The first of them may have been the apothecary Joseph Chamberlain (c.1762-1840), who probably married Elizabeth Roberts in 1818 (Suffolk Archives) and advertised his elastic trusses for sale in Tavern Street the following year (Suffolk Chronicle, 27 March, front page). Later newspapers reported that Samuel Belcher Chapman had worked in Ipswich since 1822 (Ipswich Journal, 3 July 1880, p. 5), having taken over from a Mr Chamberlain (East Anglian Daily Times, 11 April 1891, p. 5).

The appellation of Pain and Bayles was retained well after the departure of Robert Haward Edgar Bayles [known as Howard Bayles (1872-1954)] in 1901 (London Gazette, 18 October, p. 6806). Kelly's Directory of Suffolk lists Pain & Bayles in 1904 (p. 211) but Pain & Manton in 1908 (p. 215). During this period Manton Oldfield (1859-1924) took over at 17 Cornhill although Arthur Pain (1854-1927) retained ownership of the building if not the business (East Anglian Daily Times, 15 February 1909, p. 4) despite moving from Ipswich (Evening Star, 25 May 1904, p. 2, setting out his political agenda as a prospective town councillor) to Felixstowe (Kelly's Suffolk, 1908, p. 137; and Cowell's Felixstowe & Walton, 1909, p. 107) where a branch of Pain and Bayles had been established in 1897 (Douthwaite's advertisement in Cowell's 1914 directory, p. 97). David Kindred's photograph dated 1900 ("Cabs outside the Post Office on the Cornhill, Ipswich March 16, 1900") is sharp enough to show the names of Pain and Bayles as well as (late?) Chapman and Pain.

The tailors Montague Burton Ltd were at 17 Cornhill by 1922 (Kelly's Directory of Suffolk, p. 216). Number 19 Cornhill first appears in Kelly's county directories in 1904 (p. 211: New York Life Insurance Co. and dentist Samuel B. Rowbotham), evidently designating a section of what had previously been 17 Cornhill. Burton's store later encompassed both 17 & 19 Cornhill and 1 Tavern Street (Kelly's Directory of Ipswich and Neighbourhood, 1935, p. 552) with an Art Deco façade dating from 1934.

Permission for two sets of fascia signs at 17-19 Cornhill was granted to Arcadia Group Plc in 2000 (planning application 00/00604), perhaps anticipating the arrival of Dorothy Perkins, who were listed in telephone books at 17 Cornhill for several years (e.g. 2003 and 2006/07) before coming here from 15/15a Tavern Street (Google's 2009 street view).

Burton and Dorothy Perkins were supplanted by Deichmann's footwear and bag shop in 2020 (Ipswich Star, 3 December).

1 Tavern Street (now with 17 & 19 Cornhill)

B. P. Grimsey wrote:

Mr. Alfred Godball's (Music-seller), was previously Messrs. Rees & Gripper's, and earlier, Mr. J. M. Burton's Printing and Bookselling Establishment.

The affairs of Messrs Burton, Rees and Gripper are detailed by Tony Copsey in The Ipswich Book Trades (2011, pp. 98-106). Printer, bookseller and stationer Joseph Mumford Burton (1810-1898) was trading as Read & Burton with James Read (1804-1882) before opening his own "Cornhill" premises (formerly grain merchant Samuel Sherman's) in 1835. As J. M. Burton & Co. from 1851 he had another partner, Robert Charles James Rees (1823-1908), who joined with Henry Gripper (1828-1876) from 1863 to 1870 as Rees & Gripper. Henry sold up in 1875. The name of the Ipswich Steam Press is displayed on their building in the 1868 photograph.

The Cornhill music warehouse of Alfred Godball (1829-1897) and his brother Shadrach James Godball (1844-1896) opened at 1 Tavern Street on 30 November 1875 (East Anglian Daily Times, 30 November & 1 December, front pages). It was depicted in their advertisements on the front page of the Ipswich Journal in the 1880s (e.g. 4 December 1886 & 7 February 1888) and on the back of the town map in Pawsey & Hayes' 1890 Guide to Ipswich (and, with a few alterations, in the annual Suffolk County Handbook up to 1909). Like David Kindred's 1900 Cornhill photograph, they show the new frontage with its trompe-l'oeil niched figures of Beethoven and Handel created by the artist Henry Todd in 1886 (Star of the East, 15 September, p. 2).

Rice Brothers, tailors, were here from 1909 (East Anglian Daily Times, 11 January, front page, and 16 March, p. 5) to 1912 (Kelly's Directory of Suffolk, p. 241).

Hat makers Dunn & Co., who already had over 250 branches or agencies elsewhere, opened a new one in Ipswich at 1 Tavern Street on 30 January 1913. An advertisement filling the entire front page of that day's East Anglian Daily Times features a large illustration of their shopfront, along with the eastern edge of the adjacent pharmacy, on which the number 19 is clearly visible below the balcony.

In 1925 G. A. Dunn & Co. were sharing 1 Tavern Street with their tenants, De Bear Schools Ltd, in an upstairs room, and the printers Trudgill & Rance at the rear of the premises; Trudgill & Son were there from c.1926 to 1933, before demolition (Tony Copsey, The Ipswich Book Trades, 2011, p. 256).

As noted above, Burton's store was then extended from 17 & 19 Cornhill to include 1 Tavern Street. Space was soon found at 1a Tavern Street for the tobacconists Albert Baker & Co. (Kelly's Directory of Ipswich and Neighbourhood, 1936, p. 283) and (from c.1948) their successors Finlay & Co. By the 1950s 1 Tavern Street is no longer specified in those directories, Montague Burton preferring the Cornhill address.

3 Tavern Street (now Clintons)

Silk mercer and draper Charles Wilkinson Stubbin (1836-1904) announced in 1883 (Ipswich Journal, 15 December, p. 8) that he had moved from the Butter Market and opened Business at the Premises known as the BON MARCHE at 3 Tavern Street. He retired twelve months later (East Anglian Daily Times, 4 November 1884, front page, and 31 December 1884, p. 2). Freeman, Hardy and Willis, the old-established boot and shoe sellers, were here soon afterwards (Ipswich Journal, 26 February 1885, front page). Their shop is part of David Kindred's 1900 Cornhill view and Borin Van Loon has copied a later Bon Marché photograph on his Ipswich Historical Lettering website.

Freeman, Hardy & Willis apparently remained at 3 Tavern Street until 1993, when planning permission for alterations was granted in July to their parent company, Sears, and in November to Ron Wood Greeting Cards, whose Birthdays chain became a subsidiary of Clinton Cards, later called Clintons, the shop's current retailer.

Many, if not all, of C. W. Stubbin's predecessors in the drapery business at 3 Tavern Street or thereabouts were Quakers:

1881-1883 John Hall and William Hall trading as Hall Brothers at the Bon Marché

1875-1881 Robert Smith junior

1857-1875 Robert Smith senior

1843-1857 Thomas Shewell and Robert Smith trading as Shewell & Smith

1815-1843 Thomas Shewell

c.1814-1815 William Bleckly and John Talwin (or Talwyn) Shewell trading as William Bleckly & Co.

1814 John Talwin (or Talwyn) Shewell

c.1802-1814 Mary Liversidge trading as Liversidge & Shewell with John Talwin (or Talwyn) Shewell, who had been apprenticed to Isaac Liversidge in 1797

1787-c.1801 Isaac Liversidge (d. 1802) who moved his linen drapery to an adjoining shop in 1793 (Ipswich Journal, 5 January, p. 3)

1775 (or earlier)-1787 John Taylor

5 Tavern Street (now a branch of Boots)

B. P. Grimsey wrote:

The City Clothing Company's Tailoring Establishment, and Messrs. Wainwright & Son's Wholesale Grocery Warehouse, were together formerly the business establishment of the late Mr. Jeremiah Head; then of the late Mr. Charles Burton; and since then of the late Mr. Samuel Wainwright, in the said Wholesale business.

He could not have foreseen that the Picture House would be here from 1910 to 1958. It preserved the towering oriel constructed for wholesale grocers Wainwright and Sons over an entranceway between two shops, first occupied in 1901 by H. Samuel and the Domestic Bazaar Company. At least one of these shops had been used by grocer, cheesemonger and provision merchant Samuel Wainwright (1818-1881) as a retail outlet (Ipswich Journal, 11 March 1871, p. 7). This was relinquished by Wainwright and Son soon after his death (Ipswich Journal, 26 March 1881, pp. 3 & 6). Gamlen and Company (tailors, hatters and outfitters) were there briefly, before selling their business to the City Clothing Company in 1882 (East Anglian Daily Times, 20 March, p. 2).

Samuel Wainwright moved from the Old Butter Market to Tavern Street in the early 1850s, taking the place of Alderman Charles Burton (1788-1877) who had served as Mayor of Ipswich in 1848-49, having acquired the grocery business of Jeremiah Head in 1824 (East Anglian Daily Times, 24 December 1877, p. 2). Jeremiah (1789-1866) also became a leading town councillor but he was not elected as Mayor until 1858, when the Society of Friends no longer forbade municipal honours (Suffolk Chronicle, 3 March 1866, p. 8). His father (1759-1813) and grandfather (1731-1782) were both Quakers and both named John Head. In 1758 the grandfather described himself as a wholesale or retail grocer, cheese-monger and sweet-maker whose wares included wines, brandies and rum. He was advertising his removal from the Butter Market to merchant John Richman's former house near the Cross Tavern on the Corn Hill and seeking a tenant for a handsome apartment of that house, with the use of a good yard, a stable for two horses and other conveniences (Ipswich Journal, 22 April 1758, p. 4). The Cross Tavern closed about 17 years later (David Kindred, Ipswich: Lost Inns, Taverns and Public Houses, 2012, p. 125). It was in the vicinity of the present Lloyds Bank, just a few doors west of 5 Tavern Street, where Lloyds Avenue was opened in 1931.

7 Tavern Street (lately a Carphone Warehouse)

B. P. Grimsey wrote:

Mr. George Wootton's Hair-cutting Establishment, was formerly Mr. Harry Gross's, and earlier, Mr. Thomas Archer's Ironmonger's shop and in Mr. Archer's time the only place where skins of parchment for deeds and leases, and papers for bills of exchange and promissory notes, with Government stamps denoting the payment of the duties thereon, were obtainable in Ipswich.

A detailed description of George Wootton's new premises in the East Anglian Daily Times of 1 October 1887 (p. 5) is transcribed below his 1892 advertisement from Pawsey & Hayes' Ipswich guide. The article includes these lines:

At one time the Stamp-office was there; for

many years Mr. Harry Gross occupied it as an iron-

mongery shop; and of late it has been temporarily

tenanted by mere chance-comers—occasionally appearing

as an auction room, and once (if we mistake not) as the

scene of a waxworks exhibition, or something of that

kind. These vagrant courses, however, are now finally

abandoned, and No. 7 again assumes its proper place

among the respectable business establishments of Tavern

Street.

From 1862 to 1868 Harry Gross (c.1826-1897) was a partner in the firm of Archer & Gross with George Thomas Archer (Ipswich Journal, 12 July 1862, front page, and 25 January 1868, p. 4) before running the ironmongery himself until its disposal in 1885 (Ipswich Journal, 26 May & 22 September, front pages) or 1886 (Ipswich Journal, 23 January, p. 3). George Thomas Archer (1832-1883) took over the shop of his father Thomas Archer (c.1786-1853) in 1853 (Ipswich Journal, 28 May, p. 2) or 1854 (Suffolk Chronicle, 7 January, p. 2). Thomas had probably been there since 1826 (Suffolk Chronicle, 30 September, p. 3) when he was handling the accounts of the late ironmonger John Walford (c.1755-1826) whose 40-year-old business was put on the market. The "very capital" freehold premises were described as "most substantially rebuilt, and in an excellent state of repair, situate very near the Cornhill" (Suffolk Chronicle, 2 September 1826, p. 3).

9 & 11 Tavern Street (now an iStore for Apple products and the southern entrance to Sailmakers Shopping Centre, known as Tower Ramparts 1986-2014)

B. P. Grimsey wrote:

Messrs. Stead & Simpson's (Boot-sellers), was formerly Mr. E. T. Read's (Woollen Draper), and previously Mr. W. L. Bloomfield's (Tailor), and Mr. Charles Silburn's Italian Warehouse.

Stead & Simpson opened their boot and shoe warehouse at 9 & 11 Tavern Street in 1883 (Ipswich Journal, 9 June, p. 4). They were still at 9 Tavern Street in 2008 when the company was bought by Shoe Zone, whose Westgate Street outlet was retained while Stead & Simpson's was rebooted as the iStore (Ipswich Star, 11 August 2010).

Tailors and hatters Edward T. Read and Son left in 1883 (Ipswich Journal, 24 March, front page), 35 years after Edward Thomas Read (c.1819-1903) had bought the drapery of "W. L. Bloomfield" (Suffolk Chronicle, 25 September 1847, p. 3) who is identified in other records as William Lawrence Blomfield (c.1796-1891). This would have been at 9 Tavern Street, as numbered by the system introduced in 1860. Edward married one of the girls next-door, Susanna(h), the third daughter of Thomas Archer, at the church of St Mary-le-Tower in 1848 (Ipswich Journal, 9 December, p. 3).

Charles Silburn had commenced business as a tea dealer, grocer and drysalter at his Italian warehouse, Bank Buildings, in 1828 (Ipswich Journal, 27 September, p. 2). He was there, at 11 Tavern Street, for the 1861 census but sold up to [Robert] Miller & Son in 1862 (Ipswich Journal, 28 June, p. 4, and Suffolk Chronicle, 18 October, p. 4) and died two years later at the age of 62. Neighbour Edward T. Read then took these premises for his new hat establishment, under the management of "a Practical Man from London" (Suffolk Chronicle, 24 December 1864, front page).

There was also a temperance hotel at 9 & 11 Tavern Street for two decades from c.1898 (Jewell's Ipswich Directory, p. 230), run initially by Lucy Barlow and, after her death in 1913, by Henry Starling (Kelly's Directory of Suffolk, 1916, p. 237). The hotel is on the second floor in Goad's 1909 fire insurance plan.

13 Tavern Street (now Pandora, the jewellers)

At the centre of the Bank Buildings was the Blue Bank, which caught the attention of William Hunt's 1864 Descriptive Handbook of Ipswich (p. 20):

On the left-hand side, not more than six or seven doors

from the Cornhill, is the Bank of Messrs. Bacon, Rodwell,

and Cobbold,—often called the "Blue Bank," the partners

having always been connected with the conservative

interest in politics. The ancient appearance of this building

gave place, four or five years since, to its present quiet but

elegant front of marble columns and plate glass.

Those marble columns are visible at ground level in another of William Vick's photographs (Tavern Street, Ipswich, c.1870). The building's "ancient appearance" dated back no further than 1786 according to G. R. Clarke (The History and Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich, 1830, p. 350). The Ipswich Historical Society's Ipswich Through the Ages Exhibition catalogue (1956, p. 46: 384) describes two views of Bank Buildings, the first of which sounds very much like the 1868 photograph published by William Vick:

(a) Tavern Street from the Town Hall

The bank of Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold & Co. can be seen projecting slightly from the rest of Bank Buildings on the north side of Tavern Street.

(b) Bank Buildings, Tavern Street

These premises were built in 1785 by Charles Alexander Crickitt, a barrister and senior partner in the Chelmsford and Colchester Banks. The Ipswich Town and Country Bank was opened in January, 1786, in the middle of this row of five houses.

The Ipswich Town and Country Bank evolved with new partners from time to time, such as Edward Bacon in 1819 and John Chevallier Cobbold later on (Evening Star, 8 December 1904, p. 4).

Bookseller and stationer Samuel Warren announced his removal from Westgate Street to the Old Bank House at 13 Tavern Street in 1891 (East Anglian Daily Times, 30 June, p. 4) six months after Bacon, Cobbold, Tollemache & Co. had transferred their business to a new building on the Cornhill (East Anglian Daily Times, 13 December 1890, p. 5).

Samuel Warren's successor, Charles Page Hunt, is the first of several occupants at 13 Tavern Street in Kelly's Directory of Suffolk for 1908 (p. 236). They include the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.), the Suffolk Temperance Council and the Ipswich Sunday School Union as well as the Y.M.C.A. Gymnasium, with its instructor Ernest Palmer M.G.T.I. [certificated by the Medical Gymnastic Training Institute?]. From 1901 to 1905 he was in partnership with Fitzroy John Mills of Fore Street, Ipswich, trading as photographers Mills & Palmer.

The refreshment rooms of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd were listed at 13 Tavern Street from 1929 (Kelly's Directory of Suffolk, p. 249) until 1975 (Kelly's Ipswich directory, p. 511) when a new shopfront was authorized for Dorothy Perkins (planning application 75/00372). They sold womenswear here for more than 20 years before going next-door to 15 Tavern Street (as seen in a stitched Tower Ramparts image uploaded by Simon Knott in 2007) and later co-habiting with Burton's menswear at 17-19 Cornhill (as recorded by Google's 2014 street view) until the demise of the Arcadia Group in 2020 (Ipswich Star, 2 January). Meanwhile, Warehouse, another of Arcadia's companies, had occupied 13 Tavern Street, possibly from 2000 (planning application 00/00472) until at least 2009 (Google Street View).

Pandora arrived in 2015, after the conversion of Tower Ramparts into Sailmakers shopping centre.

15 Tavern Street (now River Island and the Ipswich Institute)

The Mechanic’s Institution, established here in 1824 as a centre for adult education, lives on as the Ipswich Institute, its members' library and café providing an urban oasis accessed through a deceptively narrow front entrance. The Institution is named on the Ordnance Survey's 1883 town plan (Suffolk LXXV.11.14) next to the lecture hall in Tower Street where the town’s first cinema, Poole's Picture Palace, was opened in 1909 and marked a few months later on Goad's invaluable fire insurance plan, which also reveals how 15 and 15a Tavern Street were divided.

Hairdresser George Cresswell came here from 41 Tavern Street (next to the Great White Horse Hotel) in 1866 (Ipswich Journal, 8 December, p. 3). It may not be coincidental that his father (Copdock tollgate keeper and Washbrook beerseller Richardson Cresswell) was declared bankrupt in October of that year (Suffolk Chronicle, 10 November 1866, p. 7). In 1867 George advertised his new address, seven doors from the Cornhill, on the front page of the Suffolk Chronicle on 18 May and also felt the need to offer a reward of £10 in the same newspaper on 1 and 8 June (p. 4) "to any Person who can give satisfactory information as to the originator of a report that Mr. Cresswell, Perfumer, &c., 15 Tavern-street, had left Ipswich, such report being, in every respect, entirely without foundation."

On his retirement in 1878 (East Anglian Daily Times, 1 August, p. 2), George Cresswell's lease and stock were transferred to George Wootton, who stayed at 15 Tavern Street until 1887, when he moved to 7 Tavern Street, closer to the Cornhill (East Anglian Daily Times, 29 September, p. 7). Within a few months, before the old shop fittings etc. were sold at auction, 15 Tavern Street had been let to a Mr J. Dudley of Liverpool (East Anglian Daily Times, 14 December 1887, p. 3). The demolition of Albert Everett's shop at 11 Cornhill for Bacon, Cobbold, Tollemache & Co's new building brought his hosiery to 15 Tavern Street, next to their old bank, in 1889 (Ipswich Journal, 11 January, and Star of the East, 20 September, front pages). He bought these and two adjoining properties (9, 11, 13 & 15 Tavern Street, with a frontage totalling 91 feet) for £9,000 in 1892 (Ipswich Journal, 20 February, p. 4, and 27 February, p. 5).

In 1891, after extensive alterations had been completed, tailor and colonial outfitter William Damant of 1 Clarkson Street (White's 1891-92 Suffolk directory, p. 453) moved his business to 15 Tavern Street from 12 Old Butter Market (East Anglian Daily Times, 28 July, p. 4, and 3 October, front page). Everett and Dutton were shirtmakers, hosiers, glovers and outfitters at 15 Tavern Street in Jewell's 1898 Ipswich directory (p. 230) while Smart and Damant, clerical, naval and military tailors, were at 15a, William Damant having partnered with James Smart of London in 1895 (East Anglian Daily Times, 26 September, p. 4).

Kelly's 1900 directory of Suffolk locates hosier and shirt maker Albert Everett at 15 (p. 207) and tailor James Smart at 15a (p. 217).

Everett & Sons of 15 Tavern Street advertised their new patent bifurcated shirt for sportsmen in W. E. Harrison's 1903 Guide to Ipswich and Neighbourhood (p. 104). They remained there until the 1930s, when their place was taken by ladies' outfitters J. S. Richard Ltd (Kelly's 1936 Ipswich directory, p. 283) who traded as Richard Shops Ltd from the mid-1950s, while tailor William Booth was at 15a Tavern Street by 1904 (Kelly's Directory of Suffolk, p. 232) until Masons' neighbouring drapery spread into this address in 1928 (Kelly's Ipswich directory, p. 232; and Ipswich Star, 27 May 2018).

Richard Shops went to the new Tower Ramparts Centre, opened in 1986, and consent for a new shopfront at 15a Tavern Street was obtained by Etam in 1988 (planning application 88/00200). Telephone books indicate that Etam sold ladieswear here in the 1990s and at 15 Tavern Street in the early 2000s before their place was taken by Dorothy Perkins, as noted above.

River Island's signage at 15a Tavern Street was approved in 2013 (planning application 13/00274) in time to be seen at 15/15a in Gordon Haws's epic 2014 photoshoot.

17 Tavern Street (lately The Body Shop)

The Body Shop was founded by Anita Roddick at Brighton in 1976 but does not appear to have opened in Ipswich before 1988, when permission was granted for a new shopfront (planning application 87/01059). It closed in 2024 (Ipswich Star, 1 March).

Number 17 Tavern Street had been occupied throughout much of the 20th century by Masons' drapery and ladies' fashion store, together with the adjacent premises at the corner of Tower Street. Frank John Mason (1872-1942) was there, at 19 Tavern Street, soon after his wedding at Woolpit in 1899 (East Anglian Daily Times, 3 May, p. 7, and 26 June, p. 6) and at number 17 from 1902 (East Anglian Daily Times, 28 January, front page). That extension gave him four new show-rooms, as reported in the East Anglian Daily Times on 27 March 1902 (p. 5). The additional frontage is shown in a photograph preserved by the Mason family, apparently dating from about 1903 and reproduced on the front cover of the 1906 edition of Harrison's Guide to Ipswich in an advertisement by Frank Mason, draper, costumier, laceman, etc., of 17-19 Tavern Street and 1-3 Tower Street.

In 1928, incorporating 15a Tavern Street, the company was styled Frank Mason & Son Ltd with the admission of Geoffrey Page Mason (1905-1975). His elder brother Frank Trowbridge Mason (1900-1988) had embarked on an illustrious career in the Royal Navy, leaving Geoffrey in due course to take the helm of the family firm until its closure in the late 1960s (John Norman) or 1970 (David Kindred). Joy Westendarp wrote of it in 1968 (East Anglian Window, p. 44):

This is a shop that still delivers every day ... all part of the very personal service that the Mason family has built up over the years and the reason why they have such a faithful clientele. Who else would deal with a disaster to a new dress that has to be worn in half an hour? ... Charles of the Ritz is tucked into a corner of the ground floor, for which Miss Hopes buys a glittering collection of jewellery, scarves and gloves ... and a superb collection of handbags. The children's department has recently been enlarged and has so many delicious things on its numerous shelves that I wish I still had a small daughter.

Kelly's Ipswich directories, published up to 1975, show no occupants of 17 or 19 Tavern Street in 1970 (p. 615) but Masons' children's outfitting department survived a little longer at 15a Tavern Street, disappearing between 1972 (p. 513) and 1973 (p. 514), while outfitters Chelsea Girl had been at number 17 and jeweller E. Jones at 19 since 1971 (p. 622).

The transfer of Martha Bowen's millinery business at 17 Tavern Street to Frank Mason was announced in 1902 (East Anglian Daily Times, 28 January, front page). She had taken it in 1879 (East Anglian Daily Times, 31 January, front page, and Ipswich Journal, 30 August, p. 4) from furrier and milliner Frederick Henry Pearce, who was there by 1867 (Ipswich Journal, 23 February, p. 2; and Suffolk Chronicle, 13 April, p. 4, and 5 October, p. 5). Directories also place him at 15 Tavern Street during the 1860s (e.g. Kelly's Suffolk, 1865, p. 736, and 1869, p. 840) and perhaps erroneously at 4 Tavern Street (Jones's Ipswich, 1862-63, p. 50). As noted below, in 1872 he bought 17 & 19 Tavern Street and adjacent houses in Tower Street.

19 Tavern Street (lately Game, a computer games shop)

John Norman's 2018 Ipswich Star article, "Ipswich Icons: The changes of Tavern Street" mentions that Frank Mason was an apprentice with Frederick Fish before taking over the former "London Bazaar" at 19 Tavern Street in 1899. This had been run by fancy draper, milliner and hosier John Simmons since 1891 (East Anglian Daily Times, 13 March, p. 4). The previous owner was John Driver, who first established his "London Bazaar" at 6 Tavern Street in 1873 (Ipswich Journal, 15 March, p. 6, and 22 March, p. 2) and relocated it to 19 Tavern Street in 1874 (Ipswich Journal, 21 November, p. 4, and 12 December, p. 4). A branch for millinery etc. was opened on the other side of the road at 30 Tavern Street in 1880 (East Anglian Daily Times, 8 May, p. 2). A year later the new depôt was performing far better than expected under the constant supervision of Mrs Driver (Ipswich Journal, 14 May 1881, p. 4). It was still there in 1883, advertised with an illustration of the Dial Lane corner shop on the front page of the East Anglian Daily Times as early as 25 May and until at least 18 August in the Ipswich Journal (p. 8).

John Driver and his wife Sarah were enumerated twice in the 1881 census, not only at 19 Tavern Street (under the parish of St Mary at the Tower) but also bizarrely (under St Lawrence) at number "15" [George Wootton's address], which is the only recorded location of their cook and housemaid [probably daughters of James and Charlotte Brown of Bucklesham, Elizabeth and "Grisilda" (Gessilder or Giselda)].

An East Anglian Daily Times editorial or advertorial on 30 November 1886 (p. 5) drew attention to the great variety of goods sold by John Driver. It began: We can never find out why some bazaars are called "London Bazaars" [being] filled with things from the ends of the earth, from anywhere but London.

19 Tavern Street had long been occupied by cordwainer or boot and shoe maker Roger Osborn. He was listed here in Jones's 1862-3 Ipswich directory (p. 49) despite having died shortly before its publication (Suffolk Chronicle, 16 August 1862, p. 5). The business was continued by his daughter Isabella Osborn, a shop assistant at the time of the 1861 census. She left in June 1872 (Ipswich Journal, 26 October 1872, p. 5) and a new building was ready for John Driver by the end of 1874 (Ipswich Journal, 12 December, p. 4).

Councillor Frederick Henry Pearce (1816-1881) paid £2,750 in 1872 to buy the freehold of his rented premises at 17 Tavern Street together with 19 Tavern Street and two or three houses in Tower Street (Ipswich Journal, 20 April, p. 3, and 4 May, p. 5). Those properties at the narrow entrance to Tower Street were subsequently demolished and rebuilt so as to widen the roadway at that junction (later known as Mason's Corner), for which F. H. Pearce received compensation of £250 from the Town Council (Ipswich Journal, 5 October 1872, p. 5; 30 November 1872, p. 8; and 10 January 1874, p. 8).