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THE STREET GUILTCROSS HUNDRED FULL LICENCE  
GUILTCROSS & SHROPHAM REGISTERS TAKEN 19th September 1789 & 17th September 1794
DISS BREWERY to 1774
THETFORD BREWERY Copyhold : Owner Thomas Vipan. Sold May 1837
MORGANS to 1961
STEWARD & PATTESON  
WATNEY MANN  
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WELLINGTON INNS by 2011
GARBOLDISHAM FOX COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY Owners from October 2016
Licensees :
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JOHN BARLIMAN 1740
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JAMES BROOKE 1789
EDWARD STEEL 1794
Mrs SARAH STEEL
age 72 in 1851
Died Q3 1860		 1836 - 1858
SOPHIA STEEL
Age 47
(Mrs Sarah Steel according to White, 1863)		 *1861 - *1863
THOMAS CAUDWELL
age 47 in 1871
(Died Q3 1891)		 1863 - *1871
BENJAMIN GILES BUGG
& farmer
age 44 in 1881
(Died Q3 1915)		 1875 - 1892
R. R. DAVY to 1894
JAMES HENRY CORNISH
( George Cornish 1894)		 05.11.1894 - 1909
HARRY WOMACK
& jobmaster
(Died June 1965 - age 87)
(Wife Ariminta died 25th March 1957 - age 82)		 10.01.1910 - 1949
Monday 2nd October 1911 - Accused of allowing children into the club-room for a private assembly on 25th September - Case dismissed.
ALBERT E WOMACK
(Died 1977 - age 75)
 1949 - 1976
GORDON & BOBBIE LAIDLOW
(Went to the Three Boars, Spooner Row, from April 1982)		 by 07.1976 - 10.1977+
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CLIVE & PENNY DALBY 03.1983 - 1985
ANTHONY MANN 1986
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JOHN & JACKIE MANSFIELD 1993
BARBARA CLIFF &
ROBERT LOWMAN		 02.1994
TONY & AUDREY HART 08.1994
MARK SMITH &
LEIGH PARKES		 03.1996
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IAN SKIPPER &
EDDIE THEAKER
Directors		 Dec 2016

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The sign c1920
The FOX - Garboldisham. Selling Morgans Ales
1908

17thC inn - Grade II listed building.

 Advertised as the FOX & GOOSE 22nd & 29th March 1740 - For Sale.
Then rented at £22 per Annum.


Sold 1774, to stave off bankruptcy, by Charles Simpson of the Diss (Upper) Brewery, along with 12 acres of land .

Rent in May 1837 was £35 per annum.


Given as the FOX & GOOSE 1774, 1789, 1794, 1836, 1846, 1863 & 1864

The Household Furniture and Effects of Mr. J. H. Cornish were Sold by Auction, Thursday 6th January 1910, since he was leaving the Inn.


The Household Furniture and Effects of Mr. Harry Womack were Sold by Auction, Saturday, 5th February 1949, since he was leaving the Inn.

Morgans sales for 1960 were :
114 barrels of beer
265 spirits (gallons)

`Considerable restoration' advertised 1989.

CLOSED 2007
Fate to be decided at Breckland District Council Planning Meeting 11th October 2011. Plans to convert to 5 dwellings opposed by community.

February 2013 - Garboldisham villagers said to have reached stalemate with pub owners Wellington Inns. Attempts by the community to purchase the property had been rejected.

House awarded Asset of Community Value status January 2014.

May 2016 - The Garboldisham Fox Community Interest Company hopeful of raising sufficient funds to purchase the property and re-open it.

Keys handed over to the G. F. C. I. Co. by Monday 3rd October 2016 and plans announced to re-open the establishment as a public house and restaurant, when refurbishment completed.

Re-opened and celebrated the 6th month of opening on the first weekend of July 2017 with a beer festival.