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FEATHERS GORLESTON index
128 HIGH STREET
FEATHERS PLAIN
St. Andrew's Ward FULL LICENCE
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 & Y/CJ/32 ( February 1903 - February 1953 ) & PS 18/14/2 ( 1953 - 1973 )
BELLS of Gorleston - as documented 1819 & 1824
STEWARD & PATTESON Leased from Bells from 1845 - Purchased 26.08.1865
WATNEY MANN    
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Licensees :
WILLIAM MORFEE
( William Morfer 1836)
1830 - 1839
JOHN SALMON
according to Pigot
1839
JOHN READ 1845
JOHN ROOF 1850
ROBERT GEORGE 1851
JEREMIAH HOGGETT 1854
THOMAS HARDY 1856
EDWARD BANNEY
& shipwright
1861
CHRISTOPHER SPASHETT 1863 - 1871
WILLIAM HAYNES MACEY
age 48 in 1881
1875 - 1886
EDWIN WATTS 1888
CHARLES ROLFE 1890 - 1896
HARRY SYMONDS 1900
SAMUEL WILLIAM PEARSON by 1903
GEORGE ARNOLD MOULES 10.01.1913
LILLIAN MAY WILSON MOULES 11.08.1916
ERNEST HERBERT HUNN 04.04.1922
LILLIAN MAY WILSON HUNN 08.04.1947
DOUGLAS JAMES HARBOARD 01.10.1964
JOHN LEONARD BAXTER ( John & Janice ) 31.05.1966
- 1975+
   
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Conveyed to Bells Brewery or their ancestors 9th October 1792.

Frontage rebuilt 1870

Also given as the THREE FEATHERS.

Damaged by enemy action during WWII.

 

Linda O'Carroll advises 09.01.2005 :-

Christopher Spashett (1802-74) was an agent for the Short Blue
fleet from about 1854 when it moved from Barking to Gorleston.
He was a lifelong friend of Sam Hewett of Barking ( who owned the Short Blue ). Spashett, a smackowner, had gone bust and the job was given to help him out.
I visited Gorleston in 1992 the house had recently been refurbished,  historical fittings having been totally removed.
However the landlord gave the following information:
On the left front corner there was originally a door, and also one round
the corner on the right. The right hand door led to a small pot and jug room. The left hand door led to the main bar, which within living memory had the original Victorian high closed-in bar, with tiny doorway for serving. The left and right-hand bar-rooms were very small.  By 1992 it was all open-plan with no original fittings.  It was thought in 1992 that the general shape of the building and windows were original.  The building was painted pink at that time.
You will know, of course, from the pre-war generation, that it was
shameful for elderly and poor alcoholics to visit the pot and jug room, which was why outdoor access, situated discreetly at the side of the building, was usually provided. Old women, wearing men's caps and carrying a jug to be filled, used to sneak round there after dark for a refill.


 

See page 80 of Gt. Yarmouth in Old Postcards -
first published 1992

Entry No 195 in Licence Register