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QUEBEC STREET
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MITFORD HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1919
MITFORD REGISTER taken 12th September 1794 & MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 12/5/1 & PS 12/5/2 (1901 to 1975)
BIDWELLS Purchased 01.04.1905 by E. C. Quilter
Licensees :
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EDMUND COBB 1791
JOHN ANDREWS 1794
WILLIAM COLEY 1796
Mrs COBB
(Died during week ending 12th March 1809)
to March 1809
ELIZABETH COBB 1812 - 1815
   
WILLIAM GOWNS
(Buried 6th November 1824)
1822
STEPHEN BROOM 1830
WILLIAM RIX 1836
......... BROOM
according to Robson (See Chequers)
1839
JAMES WILSON
1839 according to Pigot
age 50 in 1851
1839 - 1851
JOHN LING
age 55 in 1861
1854 - 1865
ROBERT COWLES
(also as COULES 1883)
age 54 in 1871
1868 - 1887
FREDERICK TAYLOR 1887 - 1890
WILLIAM RABY
Age 29 in 1891
06.06.1890 - 1891
CLEMENT LONG 1892
GEORGE MALE 1894 - 1900
FREDERICK WRIGHT FOX
age 35 in 1901
by 1901
THOMAS COWELL 09.01.1903
MARGARET COWELL 06.04.1906
ROBERT KENNY 18.05.1906
FREDERICK WARREN 22.11.1907
ARTHUR WILLIAM PAYNE 06.02.1914
ARTHUR S BIDWELL 24.11.1916
LINFORD MARTIN 12.10.1917




Owned by Samuel Bidwell c1812

Address as Back Street in 1839.

On Friday 3rd March 1905, Thomas Cowell applied for renewal of licence. Sergeant Moore said that Quebec Street was about 163 yards long with about 30 houses. The Half Moon had five bedrooms on the first floor plus a sitting room and storeroom, also upstairs. The kitchen and parlour were used for trade. There were no yards nor premises. The house was 12 yards 2 feet from the DUKES HEAD, 41 yards from the EAGLE, 102 yards from the GEORGE and 75 yards from the RED LION. The other houses were more commodious and the Half Moon was the least suitable.
In reply it was said that there had been no complaint against the house and it catered for the working classes, the Dukes Head, Eagle and George had a different class trade. A petition of 140 signatures in support of the application, from customers from more than thirty parishes, was refused by the Clerk.
For Bidwells it was said that the licence had existed for about 100 years and as far as known there had never been a conviction against any occupier. Yearly trade over three years had averaged 120 barrels of beer, ale and stout and 52 gallons of spirits, besides a large quantity of minerals. A good trade.
Mr. Mitchell, baker and confectioner, said he supplied a great deal of bread on market days for the purpose of sale in the form of bread and cheese.
Licence renewed.

 
Referred for Compensation 1st March 1919

Licence extinct 8th March 1919