| Licensees : |
| THEOPHILUS WELLS |
1836 |
ROBERT
UTTING WELLS
age 30 & farming 40 acres in 1851 |
1845 - 1858 |
WILLIAM SMART
& farmer 40 acres 1861
& farmer 50 acres 1871 |
1861 - 1877 |
GEORGE HAWKINS
& farmer |
1879 - 1900 |
ELI COBB
(& Elizabeth Cobb 1905) |
1904 - 1916 |
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| JOHN RODWAY |
1922 - 1929 |
| NANCY RODWAY |
09.04.1929 |
| PERCY AUCKLAND SWALLOW |
03.04.1934 |
| JAMES WILFRED DAWSON |
11.06.1935 |
| WILLIAM ABBOTT |
01.03.1938 |
| CORNELIUS O'DONAGHUE |
14.05.1940 |
| LILY O'DONAGHUE |
04.02.1941 |
| WILLIAM
GEORGE ANDERSON |
10.04.1951 |
| WILLIAM
CHARLES LEWIS WYDENBACK |
03.06.1952 |
| JOHN SYDNEY
BAXTER |
13.04.1954 |
| JOHN L D
ABBOT |
27.12.1957 |
| Mrs ELLEN M
A ABBOTT |
01.06.1971 |
| ROBERT
DOWSON-SMITH |
22.02.1972 |
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1914
Built 1693 for (and presumably by) the estate bricklayer.
Extended c1740 and became an Alehouse.
The barn to the West was also built c1740 and
used as accommodation for both the servants and horses
of the visitors to Lord Buckingham at the Hall.
The southern room still contains feeding troughs and hay racks.
BLICKLING ARMS 1845
& 1851
BUCKINGHAM ARMS 1865 & 1891
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Robert Utting Wells,
publican and farmer, assigned all of his estate and assets to his creditors
as described in an indenture dated January 11th 1859. All of his household
furniture whether for use as ornamental fixture, beers, liquors, horses,
carriages, live and dead stock, growing crops, implements of trade and
husbandry plus all other goods whatsoever were to be bargained, sold,
assigned, transferred or set to his creditors. These included Samuel
Grimmer of Norwich, Wine Merchant, Philip Primrose of Trunch, Beer Brewer
and Thomas Smith of Blickling, all of whom gained Power and Authority of
the assets. The weaving apparel of Mr Wells and his family were exempt
from forfeiture.
The debts were itemised as:-
£31...... J Woodrow
£50 ..... Thomas Smith exor for J Brown
£39/18/- .... Primrose & Co
£23/16/- ....William Primrose by Philip Primrose
£23/9/10 .... Leonard Harman & Sons
£82/1/6 .... Grimmer & Co
£21/18/- ... Isaac Wiseman
£15/0/11 .... John Chapman
£15/5/- .... Charles Barker by William Forster, his attorney
£9/17/1 .... Burcham Parmenter
£0/13/- George E Tattam
£3/17/6 .... Bullock Brothers
£0/6/3 .... H Laxen
£5/11/2 .... William England
£12/18/- .... Thomas Gritterson
£2/9/- .... Henry Craft
£1/4/6 .... B S Austen
£2/14/- .... Robert Margetson
£0/16/- .... James Sands
£0/12/- .... M Symonds
£7/0/6 .... R K Morton
£2/13/- .... G E Burrell
£16/0/4 .... J Salmon
£1/6/3 .... Fred Wright
£5/10/6 .... James Brown
£8.... Robert Palmer
£1/16/- .... Edward Sendall
£3/1/8 .... James Leo Case
£ 2/12/6 .... Richard Clarke
£1 .... William Chapman
A total debt of some £402
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September 1996
Map ref TG1728
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