| Licensees : |
JOHN
PRENTICE
Age 51 in 1851 |
*1841 - *1858 |
THOMAS BEART
Age 23 in 1861
(Employed as a gamekeeper at Chedgrave in 1871)
(Died Q2 1896 - age 58 ?) |
*1861 - *1869 |
| uninhabited |
1871 |
THOMAS BARLEY
& shopkeeper
(Died Q1 1897 - age 73) |
*1875 -
1892 |
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JAMES UPCRAFT |
*1896 |
ROBERT
SHELDRAKE / SHELDRICK
Age 50 in 1901 |
1900 - 1909 |
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Sited nearer to the Sluice than the CRICKETERS.
The licensing sub-committee considered the house to be unnecessary at
the meeting held Monday 6th March 1905.
In support of licence renewal it was said that it was surprising that a
house with much accommodation should have been thought redundant.
Provisional licence granted and the matter referred to the Quarter
Sessions.
Monday 12th February 1906 - Licence renewal adjourned for consideration
at the licensing meeting to be held 12th March 1906.
12th March 1906 - Licence granted.
Licence not renewed at Adjourned Licensing Session
held Monday 8th March 1909 in Downham Market.
Licence refused at Compensation Authority meetings of 21st and 23rd June
1909. Reported as a beerhouse owned by Elijah Eyres Brewery Ltd. and run
by licensee Robert Sheldrick.
At the Compensation Meeting of Wednesday 22nd December 1909 it was stated
that trade at the house was estimated as :-
Average beer barrelage for last 3 years, 30 barrels
Minerals 12 dozen per annum
Rent £10/2/- paid by tenant at 18 years, £180
Estimated total (10 year) value of £180
Total claim was £146
The committee allowed the full claim with 10% going to the tenant.
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At the Downham Licensing Sessions of Monday 14th February 1910 it was
reported that following the Compensation Meeting of the previous year,
compensation had been allowed but it had not yet been paid and the house
remained open.
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The Lynn Advertiser of
27th May 1910 reported the Sale by Auction Friday June 10th 1910 at 3
o'clock in the afternoon.
Described as containing 6 bed-rooms, entrance hall, cellar, pantry,
tap-room, parlour, two sitting-rooms, kitchen, scullery, large yard and
gardens and 3 sheds, now occupied by Robert Sheldrick and his undertenant.
Two cottages occupied by Robinson and Bowman were also included in the sale
as well as Right Of Common upon Denver Common, for one cow.
The public house licence to be given up prior to completion and the property
to be sold unlicensed.
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