Proprietors Sharon and Melissa)
Mill Road, Cotton. IP14 4QL
Tel: 01449 781234
16th century heavily beamed pub with restaurant using local
seasonal produce, bar food, Real Ales and friendly service.
Feature garden with swimming pool, breeze house and outdoor
games to play.
Families and well behaved dogs are most welcome.
Live music most Saturday nights.
Licensed for weddings.
Separate Dining Room available for private parties
Dining Room Bar Area with Open Fire
Mechanical Music Museum
The museum is a veritable
Aladdins cave, full of musical treasures. The roof rafters are
adorned with hundreds of old gramophone records and horn
gramophones.
On the floor beneath, the Organs are housed – some with their
pipes reaching to the rafters. Fairground organs with the names of
their famous makers engraved on them. Reed organs, barrel organs,
player organs and the gigantic cafe organ.
Next to them, the street pianos produce their characteristic
sound, and the pianolas bring back to life the music of bygone
days.
The smaller instruments are in abundance to – the musical boxes,
polyphons and organettes charm the listener with their bright
tuneful music, and lurking in corners are the unusual – a musical
christmas tree, a musical chair, nursery toys and much much
more….
Also housed in the museum is a mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ which
was built and originally installed by the Rudolph Wurlitzer
Manufacturing Co. in the Stilwell Theatre, Brooklyn, New Jersey USA
in 1926. Three years later it was removed, shipped to England and
installed in the Luxury Theatre in London, built by the legendary
Jack Buchanan, and which was later known as The Leicester Square
Theatre.
If you have an eye for music or the unusual, why not come and
see(and hear) for yourself.
The Museum is open on Sunday afternoons in June, July, August
and September 2:30 - 5:30 pm
www.cottonmusic.co.uk
The Village of Cotton is located just off the B1113, 6 miles
north of Stowmarket,
Suffolk.