| Licensees : |
| WILLIAM CALLOW |
1822 - 1830 |
| JANE CALLOW |
1836 |
WILLIAM
CARTER HAINES
(Age 40 in 1851 - at the Quay Commercial Tavern) |
*1839
- *1851 |
| CHARLES M HOWARD |
1854 - 1861 |
Fine of 5s and court fees on Saturday 3rd April 1858 for having persons
drinking in the house at illegal hours on Good Friday.
(Steam Packet Tavern - South beach) |
BENJAMIN
BURTON
See below |
1863 |
| HENRY SAVORY |
1863 - 1871 |
|
Fine of 5s Friday 30th January 1863 for serving customers at illegal
hours on the previous day. |
| RICHARD SAMUEL STEELE |
1877 - 1892 |
| WILLIAM ROYAL |
by 1900 |
| HECTOR ALFRED ELLIS |
16.10.1903 |
| JOSEPH ELLIS |
17.11.1905 |
| JOSEPH STEEL |
12.10.1906 |
| GEORGE FISHER |
27.01.1911 |
| CHARLES PHILIP TAYLOR |
26.09.1913 |
Convicted
18.10.1920 for permitting a quart bottle of rum to be taken away on a day prohibited for
that purpose.
Fine 20/- plus 10/6 costs or 14 days in detention. |
| CHARLES ALBERT BAKER |
06.01.1925 |
| JANE BAKER |
21.07.1925 |
| WALTER THOMAS TOPPS |
02.04.1935 |
| |
|
Note : In 1863, the directory by
Cobb gives Benjamin Burton at the
STEAM PACKET,
Hall Quay. Other sources name Henry Savory at this house in 1863 and
later. The 1863 directory by White gives B. Burton at the
CAMBRIDGE TAVERN.
|
Address as Fishers Quay in 1822.
The EMPEROR STEAM PACKET 1836
& 1845.
SOVEREIGN STEAM PACKET 1845
The Eastern Daily Press of Thursday 17th
May 1877 reported :-
Amy Thompson was summoned before Yarmouth Police Court for threatening
Hannah Lodge. Mr Diver appeared for complainant, and Mr Wiltshire for
defendant. From complainant's evidence it appeared that she was a married
woman, and was at that time living at the Steam Packet Tavern, waiting on
Mr Steele's (the landlord) wife, who was ill. On Wednesday, April 25th,
when she was in the bar, the defendant, who is sister to Mrs Steele, came
in and commenced to abuse her. She retired into the bar parlor, but
defendant followed her and again abused her and also threatened her. She
ran upstairs, and defendant came to the bottom of the stairs and again
threatened to do for her. She asked the defendant might be bound over to
keep the peace. Defendant was bound over in two sureties of £10 each to
keep the peace for three months.
Advertisement
in the Norwich Mercury of 10.02.1904.
``Good strong country girl wanted to do housework.
Wages £12 (per annum).
Apply to Mrs Ellis, Steam Packet Hotel''.
Mrs. Ellis summoned her husband Hector Friday 13th October 1905, seeking
a separation on the grounds of the persistent cruelty that he had shown
towards her.
She stated that she could not rely upon him for more than five minutes
and try as she might, she could never please him. Scrubbing doorsteps
was his idea of a wife. He had never been a sober man and on one
occasion he had gone to bed, drunk, at 8 am and did not get up until 4
pm when he went to the bar and tossed for quids. During the birth of her
child he had promised not to touch a drop, but when she got up he
admitted that he had been drunk for seven days. He had slapped her face
in the presence of a servant and on 23rd August he had thrown a bowl of
eggs about, smashed a glass and threw bread and butter about. He
regularly had a dozen gin and milk before breakfast and then went to the
barrel with a half pint glass and `tossed the spirit off neat'.
In defence it was said that Mr. Ellis had served seven years in the army
and his father had put £600 into the business for him. He denied ever
striking his wife.
After retiring for two minutes the magistrates dismissed the case
through insufficient evidence.
Licence removed to `Fowlers Plot ', Caister Road - Premises (to be) named the BURE
HOTEL. Licence removal declared final 12.12.1939.
The sites of the STEAM PACKET and the CROWN
& ANCHOR were combined in the development of the YARE
HOTEL, the new house opening 13th December 1939.
Stood between the STAR
& GARTER and the STAR HOTEL
Thanks
to Maureen Rust for the EDP newspaper article.
Plan produced in 1927 - revised 1937. |
