| Licensees : |
THOMAS STURLEY
age 30 in 1841 |
1835 - 1841 |
| CHARLES LEEDS |
1845 |
JOHN BUSH
age 36 in 1851
& farmer |
1846 - 1856 |
| JOHN
FRANKLIN |
1858 |
EDWARD MIDDLETON
age 36 in 1851
( Died Q4 1865 ) |
1861 - 1865 |
| JOSEPH MACE |
1867 - 1869 |
THOMAS
GIBSON
age 35 in 1871 |
* 1871 - 1877 |
| ARTHUR NICHOLLS |
by 1879 |
THOMAS LARKMAN
age 60 in 1881 & farmer 30 acres
( Died Q2 1889 - age 68 ) |
20.12.1880 |
| JOHN BROWN |
17.01.1889 |
WILLIAM CARR
& farmer
( Died Q2 1892 - age 75 ) |
12.1889 |
EDWARD BIGNOLD
& farmer
age 37 in 1891 |
03.11.1890 |
CHRISTOPHER EDWARD JARVIS
( Died Q1 1892 - age 75 ) |
21.12.1891 |
| ROBERT
WALKER |
18.12.1893 |
| GEORGE GIRLING |
12.1895 |
JAMES SMITH
age 51 in 1901
( Died Q1 1917 - age 66 ) |
16.10.1899 |
| JOHN ROSS |
14.10.1912 |
| WILLIAM
JOHN NICHOLLS |
1710.1921 |
SIDNEY
ERNEST BROWN
( temp licence Jan 1925 - Full licence 09.02.1925 ) |
26.01.1925 |
| JAMES McBAIN |
02.02.1927 |
| FREDERICK
QUINCY |
29.09.1930 |
| ALBERT
DUNHILL |
13.07.1931 |
| JESSE FIELDING |
19.12.1932 |
| WALTER
LAMBERT |
04.09.1939 |
| JOHN H
GUNTON |
07.02.1944 |
| GEORGE
FRANCIS |
03.04.1944 |
| DOUGLAS
FRANCIS |
09.06.1952 |
| DAVID L
CONNELL |
11.07.1957 |
| WILLIAM
MANNING |
02.12.1957 |
| JOHN L
WHITTAKER |
undated
( c 1959 ) |
| WALTER ALEX
LARKE |
17.10.1960 |
| ( Mrs LARKE
) |
( 1967 ) |
DUDLEY
ALBERT GRIMBLE
Brewery Representative |
.......1970 |
|

1913
Appears on Bryants map of 1826.
Property described as Freehold, owned by George Morse in S&P document covering the
years 06.11.1837 to 11.1851.
Commercial Hotel & Posting House.
Closed 07.02.1970, under the ownership of
Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd.
( According to Watney Mann record )
Ceased trading 04.02.1970 according to the Licence Registers. ~
Thomas Sturley and his pregnant wife Mary ( age 25 in 1841 ) appear to have
left the house in 1843/4. In 1851 Mary is recorded as a Pauper with son and
in 1861 as a former innkeeper with a 16 year old daughter. In 1851 there is
a Thomas Sturley in Portlanfd District Convict Prison where his profession
is is given as Publican / Licensed Victualler. By 1861 he appears to be
living in Swaffham with his mother and is given as a retired farmer age 53.
By 1871 Thomas and Mary are again resident in Bawdeswell Street. He is
unemployed. They still abide in Bawdeswell Street in 1881 where he is given
as a former innkeeper, age 73. Wife Mary is 68. Thomas died Q1 1883
and Mary during Q3 1888. |