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ELEPHANT & CASTLE GAYWOOD index
GAYTON ROAD FREEBRIDGE - LYNN HUNDRED CLOSED 1927
  STEWARD, PATTESON, FINCH & Co

  To expiry of lease January 6th 1899

 LAWS & Co  
Licensees :
WILLIAM BETTS
Chelsea pensioner
1861 - * 1865
THOMAS COOPER * 1869 - 1871
JOHN FARMER
( John Harmer 1875 at un-named beerhouse )
* 1875 - 1877
JOHN RIPPINGILL
& market gardener
1881 - 1883
JOHN RICHES junior * 1891
The Elephant & Castle - Image provided by Peter J. Irwin.
c1910 ? - Image provided by Peter J. Irwin.


Converted to a private dwelling following closure 1927.
Severely damaged during WWII by a vehicle transporting sugar beet.
The lorry apparently failed to negotiate a bend and entered through the window at the right end!


Stood opposite the Gaywood Clock ( South side )

 

Featured in the Lynn Advertiser of 8th July 1898.

A WELL SITUATED BEER-HOUSE FOR SALE
Messrs Cruso & Wilkin
have received instruction to offer for Sale by Auction, at the Globe Hotel, Kings Lynn, on Tuesday 26th July 1898, punctually at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in one lot, a well situated BEER-HOUSE known as the ELEPHANT & CASTLE, in the parish of Gaywood, containing 4 bed-rooms, sitting room, kitchen, cellar and domestic offices, large yard, stabling for 6 horses ( 2 loose boxes ) with good granary over, lean-to shed and other premises, together with a 2 roomed cottage at side and a large productive
MARKET GARDEN
at rear, the whole containing 1a. 1r. 0p ( more or less ).
The above house and premises are in good repair, having lately had a large amount expended upon them, and are situate on the corner of the high roads to Lynn, Sandringham and Gayton, thus commanding exceptional business advantages.
All the above premises are now and have been for some years part been let to Messrs. Steward, Patteson and Finch, whose tenancy expires on January 6th 1899, when possession will be given.
The property is copyhold to the manor of Gaywood.

Particulars and conditions of sale can be had of the
Auctioneers, Kings Lynn; or of
Messrs. E B Loynes & Son, Solicitors, Wells, Norfolk.

Thanks to Stan Langley 15.08.06 for the sale details.