| Licensees : |
JOHN BROWN
& malster, brewer & farmer |
1836 - 1851 |
RICHARD ULPH
& tailor |
1854 - 1856 |
| ALFRED WOOLSEY |
1858 - 1865 |
| CHARLES JAMES ABBS |
1868 - 1877 |
| ELIZA ANN COOKE (79) |
1881 |
THOMAS ABBS
& farmer |
1883 - 1888 |
| Miss LUCY ABBS |
1888 - 1900 |
| MAJOR DUNN |
11.10.1900 - 1916 |
| CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAMSON |
1922 to 1934 |
| STEPHEN PARTRIDGE |
06.02.1934 |
WILLIAM BLYTH
( Known as The Duke ) |
05.02.1935 |
| CLAUDE
ALBERT BLYTH |
06.04.1948 |
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| BILLIE CARDER |
c1990 |
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c1910 - Major Dunn, licensee.
Documented as a cottage with 2 acres, owned by John Boyer before 1717.
Thought to be licensed from c1760.
John Brown is shown as licensee, malster, brewer and in 1851, farmer.
His will was proved 24th December 1852.
The house included a bowling green ( recorded from 1824 ).
Valued shortly c1914 at a gross value of £1632, with an unlicensed
capital value of £580. Then described as consisting of 4 bedrooms, bar, smoke room, beer
cellar, small sitting room, kitchen & scullery; outbuildings were a 3 horse stable, 2
loose boxes, harness room & gighouse, 2 bay cart shed & skittle alley; An open
cattle yard with a 2 bay shelter, bullock box, stable with loft, and a kitchen garden with
good bowling green; there were also 2 arable fields and a small meadow.
The house was run by WOODFORDES from 1983 as their `brewery tap' -
before moving to larger premises at Woodbastwick October 1989
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