| Licensees : |
WILLIAM
GARNETT
& pheasant breeder
( Given in 1851 as 36 years old and a Malster Journeyman, living at
Bailey Street ) |
1854 - 1858 |
WILLIAM HARRISON
& pig dealer |
1861 - 1883 |
ROBERT
REEVE
according to Kelly |
1883 |
WILLIAM TAYLOR
& wheelwright |
1891 |
| RICHARD EAGLE |
c1900 |
GEORGE WILLIAMSON
( Drum & Monkey ) |
1908 |
| WILLIAM WILLIAMSON |
by April 1914 |
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Last found as the Foresters Arms in details of Elijah Eyres estate dated 1895.
The FORESTERS is described as `..... a brick, flint and pantile house with 7 rooms
upstairs and 5 downstairs, plus stabling for 3, clubroom, 2 bay cart shed, cow house for
2, garden and small pasture. Area 2 roods 8 perches in all.'
About 1908 the house was purchased ( lease?) for the sum of £75 by
George and Mary Ann Williamson ( nee Callaby) and seems to have traded as the
DRUM & MONKEY
to c1914 when closed and was used to station troops.
The sign with the words Drum & Monkey is said to have survived at
the house into the 1990's until removed by a previous owner.
The name is said to originate from a customer, presumably of the Foresters, who regularly
visited the house with both drum & monkey.
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