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 LYNN ROAD		 CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED    
CLACKCLOSE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 7/4/1 & PS 7/4/2 (1917 - 1949)
JOHN HENRY RICHARDS of Downham Market
CLARENCE CLEGG BLISS by Feb 1939
HANSLOPE & Co of Millhouse, Towcester from Feb 1947
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Licensees :
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THOMAS FRANKLIN
(Died Saturday 2nd March 1822 - age 72, long since retired.)		 here by May 1808 to at least September 1809
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JOHN WRIGHT 1822 - 09.1826
SAMUEL ARCHER 1826 - 1831
THOMAS HARRIS 1834 - 1856
Mrs MARIA ANN HARRIS
(Mary Ann Harris 1858)		 1858 - 1871
GEORGE FLETCHER 1875 - 1877
STEPHEN NOBBS STEVENS
See below.		 1879
RICHARD WADLOW 1881 - 1883
Mrs ANNE PRENTICE
(Annie Prentice 1890, Anne Prentis 1891)		 1888 - 1894
JOHN HENRY RICHARDS by 1900
BRIAN WALTER PHILLIPS 01.04.1935
CLARENCE CLEGG BLISS
(previously at Horning FERRY ? - a manager? - not mentioned as licensee)		 19.12.1938
Cicely Mary Bliss was fined 14s and 14s costs on Monday 8th September 1941 for allowing a light to show from the hotel on 18th August.
GEORGE RICHMOND MACKENZIE KERR 04.11.1946
   
Mr & Mrs F E F CHIPCHASE 1967
DAVID & SHELIA PEEL May 1971 - 1978
DEREK BRIGGS September 1982
Miss JACQUI KEVANAGH
resident manager		 April 1984
ARTHUR & CONNIE TURNER June 1986
ROLAND RETZLAFF September 1986
   
HOWARD & HELEN FRADLEY 1991 - 2020


  Monday 17th November 1879 - Stephen Nobbs Stevens was summoned by T.E. Mills, collector for the Urban Sanitary Authority, of non-payment of the general district rate, amounting to £4 4s 1½ d.
He was ordered to make the payment, with 6d costs, and a distress warrant to issue.		  

c1915


A posting inn dating from the mid 1700's.

A Young Man was urgently required to be a Waiter at the Inn, September 1809. Applications to Mr. Thomas Franklin.

Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.

To Let by Auction, Wednesday, 9th August 1826.
The lease of Mr. John Wright expiring at Michaelmas.
"The valuable Property is distinguished as the Head Inn and for commanding a very extensive Posting business, being situate in the main road from Lynn to London, and from Norwich to Wisbech"

11th October 1826. Samuel Archer acquainted the Nobility, Gentry, Commercial Gentlemen, and the Public generally that he had taken the Inn

In the 1830's daily coach services ran to London
and to Kings Lynn and Wells.

Offered For Sale by Auction Wednesday 25th May 1831, in occupation of Mr. Archer whose term would expire at Michaelmas.
The Household Furniture, China, Glass, Post Horses, Chaises and other Effects, the property of Mr. Samuel Archer, were to be Sold by Auction Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October 1831.

Offered to let by auction 29th September 1831, then in occupation of Mr. Archer. 7 acres of old Pasture Land nearby also included.


On 8th October 1831 it was announced that the Effects and Household Furniture of Mr. Samuel Archer were to be Sold by Auction Saturday 8th, Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th October 1831, a later edition revised the sale dates to  Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October.

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In May 1834, Thomas Harris acknowledged the Patronage that he had received since his arrival.
He advised the the Hotel Department was under the immediate superintendence of Mrs. Harris

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26th October 1848 : Elizabeth Eggett (31), Hannah Fendick (35), Mary Ollett (24) and Sarah Roberts (26) were each sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for stealing a quantity of potatoes from Thomas Harris. Ollett had pleaded guilty, but all received the same punishment. Christopher Eggett (34), accused of stealing wheat and potatoes, was acquitted, as was Edward Staff (42) who had been accused of being an accessory to Elizabeth Eggett.

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Also the CASTLE TAP is referenced.
The entrance to which was on Paradise road.

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Offered for sale in an announcement dated 4th November 1910.
`The Fully Licensed Commercial Property, with Yard & Tap.'

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Lynn Advertiser - 2 December 1910 PROPERTY SALE...........the Castle Hotel with outbuildings, rent £105, also the lock-up shop adjoining, known as the Arcade, rent £10, was sold privately to Mr. J.W. Richards.

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The opening of the New Victorian Bar on Tuesday 29th February 1972 was encouraged by the sale of beer at One Pence A Pint. (From 8 to 9:30) and yes, it was a Leap year
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Derek Briggs operated the Downham Brewery here 1982 - 1985
(Opening date, Saturday 11th December 1982, where a prize of Free Beer for a year was offered. The winner to receive 365 pints of Downham Bitter, value about 55p a pint).

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For Sale by 2017 but unsold by January 2020, with fear that property may be converted to private apartments.

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