| Licensees : |
| Mrs Grabbard |
1500 |
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ROBERT CROWE
age 52 in 1851
& boat owner
& farmer |
1836 - 1856 |
WILLIAM CROWE
& tailor 1858
age 40 in 1861
& coal merchant |
1858 - 1879 |
| HORACE HOWLETT |
1881 |
GEORGE THOMPSON
& ferry owner |
1883 - 1892 |
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| ALFRED PERRY |
by 1928 |
| ARTHUR WESLEY WATSON |
13.10.1930 |
| ROY EVERARD |
12.10.1931 |
| ARTHUR SCOTT |
08.10.1934 |
ALBERT ROBERT STRINGER
( Mac & Rita ) |
02.12.1935 |
| LOUIS REGINALD CANHAM |
05.09.1960 |
| WILLIAM GRAHAM CAMPBELL |
01.05.1961 |
| PERCY EDGAR RUSH |
08.07.1962 |
| ANTHONY DOMINIC WILLIAM MAWER |
26.04.1965 |
| PERCY EDGAR RUSH |
18.04.1966 |
| LESLIE CHARLES JEEVES |
16.10.1967 |
| COLIN
ERNEST HOWES |
03.02.1969 |
| EDWARD
GEORGE SHADBOLT |
01.10.1973 |
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| BRIAN &
RACHEL WARD |
14.02.1977
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Site of a Mead House established by St. Benets monks c1040.
A Mrs Grabbard is thought to have leased the house in 1500 at an annual rent of
7shillings plus two fat hens.
Lot No. 17 in sale by auction of the Coltishall Brewery estate 21st May 1796. ``With a
yard and the barn, stables and outhouses thereto belonging; Also about 3 Acres 2 Roods by
estimation of arable land and about 9 acres by estimation of marsh land with a reed rond
(pond?) ; Also a commodious Ferry Boat built a few years since at the expense of £100 and
upwards; Together with Tolls arising from the ferry. Leasehold of the Bishop of Norwich
for three lives viz, of William Baker esq, aged about 80 years, Susanna Ransome aged about
41 years and the said Chapman Ives aged about 38 years. Lease rent 8 shillings per
annum.''One end of original house was rebuilt and carried the date 1825.
( As recorded 1938 when the telephone number for the proprietor was Horning 2. The
house was said to be the only Free House on the Broads ).
Given as the FERRY HOUSE 1879.
Also given as the FERRY HOTEL.
The thatched house was destroyed by bombing at 9.45pm 26th April 1941. Subsequent
reports stated that 21 of the 24 occupants were killed. A later account gives the number
of dead as 22. Licensee Albert Stringer was `pulled alive from the wreckage by his wife
Rita'.
Following rebuilding after the war the house was again destroyed 31st March 1965, by fire.
See pages 19 and 22 in The Norfolk Broads In Old Postcards, first published 1990.
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