| Licensees : |
| Mr SMITH |
to 1776 ? |
| WILLIAM RUMBALL ? |
1776 |
| WILLIAM JACKSON |
by June 1776 |
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| SAMUEL JOHNSON |
1822 |
| JOHN POWELL |
1830 - 1839 |
SARAH POWELL
age 52 in 1851 |
1845 - 1858 |
| WILLIAM WAYMAN |
1861 - 1871 |
| Mrs JANE
WAYMAN |
1875 - 1877 |
| WASHINGTON ATLANTICUS SPECK |
1879 - 1888 |
| Mrs MARY A C SPECK |
1890 - 1892 |
| ROBERT COLE |
1900 - 1901 |
| SYDNEY ERNEST COLE |
by 1902 |
| FRANCIS HENRY THOMAS TIMMS |
10.10.1921 |
| CLARA AGNES TIMMS |
30.09.1929 |
| WILLIAM GEORGE CRUMP |
11.07.1932 |
| WILLIAM ROBERT KEMP |
03.05.1948 |
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The Norfolk Chronicle of 20th April 1776 advised that William Rumball, from the ANGEL,
Hingham, was to take over the Crown at Downham Market.
The Norfolk Chronicle of 22nd June 1776 advised that `William Jackson having taken the
CROWN INN.....humbly solicits the favours of all those who were friends of the house in
Mr. Smiths time....'Magistrates met here in the 1800's.
The house featured in food riots of 1816.
Shown on Bryants 1826 map.
Advertised as a Commercial & Posting House in early 1900's
The premises were offered for sale by auction
in the Lynn Advertiser of 13th September 1901. The sale was by auctioneer
Charles Hawkins and held at the premises on Friday September 27th 1901, at
precisely 4 o'clock.
Offered were the freehold fully licensed commercial and family hotel know as
"The Crown", together with the goodwill trade, and possession
thereof. The property was described as containing `excellent wine & beer
cellars, bar parlour and commercial room, 2 sitting rooms, ball-room with
private entrance, wholesale store department, kitchens, larder, coal, boot
and wash-houses; 14 bedrooms, w.c.; large yard, 9 stables with standing for
63 horses, and 9 loose boxes, granary, straw loft, walled in straw yard,
harness house, omnibus house, wood house, lean to carriage shed, walled in
bowling green and garden, 2 outside w.cs. and urinal.'
After the auction it was reported that the property, then occupied by Mr.
Robert Cole, went unsold. The highest bid was £2000, and this being
below the reserve price, the property was withdrawn. |
