| Licensees : |
| WILLIAM
PARSONS |
1789 |
| THOMAS
LINDO |
1830 -
1839 |
ROBERT
EBBAGE
& blacksmith
(age 45 1851) |
1845 -
1872 |
WILLIAM
SHORTEN
& nursery & seedsman (1877 & 1883
& gardener (1881 - age 54 )
& farmer (1891) |
1875 -
1912 |
| REGINALD
WALTER SHORTEN |
1916 -
1937 |
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DAVIES |
c1962 |
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August 1996
Plans to demolish and turn site into housing opposed throughout 1998 & 1999.
Planning refused for demolition December 1999.
But site won approval for housing.
House closed and boarded up January 2000.
The name was reborn when the long closed premises of the ODDFELLOWS
reopened as the BEAR, April 2000 |
