| Licensees : |
| THOMAS TUDDENHAM |
1830 |
| SAMUEL DYBALL |
1836 - 1845 |
| Mrs MARY DYBALL |
1846 |
ROBINS DIX
& carrier
( only given as carrier 1851 - age 34 ) |
1850 |
| EDWARD EASTON |
1854 - 1856 |
MAJOR R DUNN
& plumber
& master painter |
1861 |
| M FILBY |
1865 |
| WILLIAM NEALE |
1869 |
| JOHN NEALE |
1871 - 1877 |
| NOAH DIXON |
1878 - 1879 |
| STEPHEN HOLMES |
1888 |
JOHN HALL
& carpenter |
1890 - 1892 |
| THOMAS HURN |
1896 - 1900 |
| JOHN KYBIRD |
1904 - 1908 |
| ALFRED THROWER |
1912 - 1922 |
| CHARLES ALDRIDGE |
by 1925 |
| CHARLES RISEBOROUGH |
13.10.1925 |
| JAMES JOHN WRIGHT |
02.03.1926 |
| BERTIE HUGH ARTHURTON |
05.06.1928 |
DOUGLAS ARTHUR OLIVER BAKER
(Brewery representative) |
04.09.1934 |
| JOSEPH PALMER |
16.10.1934 |
| FRANK SKOYLES |
11.02.1936 |
| STANLEY BERTRAM EMERSON |
12.04.1938 |
| FRANCIS HENRY FRIEND |
11.04.1939 |
| STANLEY
BOTTOMLEY |
06.11.1951 |
| SYDNEY J
COOKE |
11.09.1956 |
| MAUDE
CAROLINE COOKE |
16.12.1958 |
| JAMES W RAVEN |
14.06.1960 |
| ALAN WILFRED
BUTLER |
12.09.1967 |
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November 1999
Named as BELL in Pigots 1830 directory.
Lot 16 in sale of St Martins Brewery
as advertised 11th October 1794 - a freehold or copyhold property - then
named the WHITE HORSE.
Later offered for sale July 1797.
Lot No. 8 in sale of Bircham & Sons Reepham Brewery Saturday 8th June
1878,
as the BELL. Then let
to Noah Dixon at an annual rent of £12.
Containing : - Parlour, Tap, Bar & Pantry, Cellar, & Kitchen, 4 Bedrooms and large
Club Room, Yard with Stabling and large Workshop and Garden beyond. Copyhold to the Manor
of Cawston.
Bullards documents record that the house was formerly known as the CHEQUERS
and later the WHITE HORSE,
before being the BELL.
This is confirmed in a document dated 7th
June 1798
which shows John Patteson of Norwich as being the owner.
The property is described as including stable, outhouses, yards, orchards
and also the adjoining cottage.
Others mentioned in the document ( including past licensees ? ) are :-
Matthew Austin, Richard Baker, Charles Fiske, Penelope Fiske, Elizabeth
Fosdyke, Nicholas Holbeck, Robert Jeykel, Daniel Jones, James Mayer,
William Pigge, Elizabeth Rackham, John Sexton, Hamond Towell, Thomas
Tuddenham ( see 1830 ) and William Turner.
However another house also traded as the WHITE HORSE at the
same time as the BELL and both were conveyed
to Bullards 26.11.1878.
Closure of EITHER the BELL or the
LAMB agreed at the First Joint Committee Meeting of Bullards and S&P
29th May 1962.
Sales for the BELL given as 94 barrels of beer.
The tenant was said to be 46 years of age and to have been at the house for two years.
House remembered as two separate rooms about
central corridor.
Today the corridor is gone, but the house still maintains a comfortable `traditional'
ambience. One of the beams in the bar ceiling bears the date of 1673. |
