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STAR HOTEL Gt. YARMOUTH S index
25 HALL QUAY
ROW 62		 REGENT WARD FULL LICENCE.
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 & Y/CJ/32 ( February 1903 - February 1953 ) & PS 18/14/2 ( 1953 - 1973 ) & PS 18/14/3 ( 1973 - 1980 )
SAMUEL JAMES RAMSEY   
HENRY TAYLOR Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton given as Mortgagees.
HENRY GREENLAND of Hereford
STAR HOTEL Co. Ltd. Given in Kelly's 1934 directory as Star Hotel, Gt. Yarmouth ( 1930 ) Ltd.
NORFOLK & SUFFOLK HOTELS Ltd. after 1937
TRUMAN, HANBURY & BUXTON From 1948 according to 1949 edition of Trumans Black Eagle Journal              ( Thanks to Alex Wilkinson )
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Licensees :
   
Mr VINCENT
( Died 30th August 1783 )		 to 08.1783
WILLIAM SHREEVE
( Star Tavern )		 1791
-  
THOMAS GRIMLEY 1830
WILLIAM BIRD 1836 - 1839
MARY PESTELL
age 56 in 1851		 1845 - 1856
GEORGE H DIVER 1861 - 1863
WILLIAM SHALES
farmer & hotel keeper		 1865 - 1886
HENRY JAMES LANE
( As James Lane in 1896 )		 1888 - 1896
SAMUEL JAMES RAMSEY by 1900
HENRY TAYLOR 15.04.1904
JANE CREEDEN TAYLOR 02.02.1915
ROBERT AUGUSTUS CUDDEFORD 15.06.1917
CHARLES WILLIAM COOPER 13.06.1919
WALTER JAMES OLDMAN 17.07.1928
( PERCY WOODGER - manager ? ) ( 1929 )
THOMAS WALTER WARREN 04.11.1930
WALTER JAMES OLDMAN 19.05.1931
GEORGE LESLIE BENNETT 08.03.1946
ALFRED ERNEST COLLINS
( Mr. P F D Brookes - appointed manager 1949 )		 06.04.1948
CHARLES HENRY MEGGS 06.12.1949
CHARLES HENRY MEGGS &
ORESTE ALBERTO BONDI		 03.11.1959
MAURICE EDWARD FULLER &
ORESTE ALBERTO BONDI		 09.02.1962
RAYMOND HUGH BURCHETT &
ORESTE ALBERTO BONDI		 13.02.1970
JOHN ROBERT BURNO &
ORESTE ALBERTO BONDI		 05.02.1971
ALEXANDER EDGAR GRANT &
ORESTE ALBERTO BONDI		 24.05.1973
ALEXANDER EDGAR GRANT &
PETER GODWYN BONDI		 08.02.1974
EDWARD ALGIE &
PETER GODWYN BONDI		 14.02.1975
DOUGLAS WILLIAM PLUMMER 19.05.1977
   
   
 
Hotel founded 1660
Listed as an inn from 1750.

Said to originally been the home of 
Lord President Bradshaw who presided at the trial of Charles I.

Star Tavern & Coffee House 1783 

Carved oak paneling from the `Nelson Room' was removed in 1813.
The panels dating from c1600.
This found its way to the USA and the room
eventually re-created in the New York Metropolitan Museum.

Address as Short Quay in 1836, 1850 & 1854.
57 Howard Street in 1896.
( Site was on the NW corner of Row 67
- Howard Street to Hall Quay).

Given as the STAR HOTEL VAULTS from 1896 to 1929.

The STAR HOTEL relocated in premises next door, which had been the Cromwell Temperance Hotel. The licence was transferred from the Old Star to the New Star in September 1930.

Original house demolished in 1934 to allow building of an extension to the Post Office.

See p. 35 of `Gt. Yarmouth - Archive Photographs ' - Pub 1995
See p. 70 of `Gt. Yarmouth In Old Postcards - Vol 1 ' - pub. 1990
( Cromwell Hotel )