| Licensees : |
| - |
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| WILLIAM BOWEN
(?) |
1794 |
| - |
|
| THOMAS GILL |
1832 - 1851 |
| EUGENE SPOONER |
1854 |
| ROBERT
SPOONER |
1856 - 1858 |
WILLIAM ETHERIDGE
Age 42 |
* 1861 - 10.1862 |
WILLIAM MOORE
& farmer of 85 acres
Age 38 in 1871 |
1863 - 1875 |
| HENRY ROBERT FLOOD |
1877 - 1879 |
| Tuesday 7th January 1879 - Fine of 1s
and 11s costs for having house open after 10:00pm on 24th December 1878.
Cautioned as to the future. |
| EDMUND CROSS |
1879 - 1882 |
| CAROLINE CROSS |
(1881) |
WILLIAM WOODS
Age 72 in 1891 |
17.03.1882 - 1894 |
| JOHN CAMMACK MANN |
1896 |
| WILLIAM RALLISON |
1900 - 1904 |
| GEORGE J. JACOBS |
1908 |
| FRANK RANDS |
1912 - 1915 |
| Mrs A RANDS |
1916 |
| CECIL FRANK RANDS |
by 1922 |
ROBERT NICHOLS
Died 1945 - see opposite. |
23.01.1933 |
| BEATRICE LEAH NICHOLS |
12.02.1940 |
WILLIAM GIBBS
Died Q4 1954 - age 66 |
24.04.1950 |
| DANIEL HAYES |
25.10.1954 |
| OLIVER BOWERS |
20.10.1958 |
| FREDERICK CHARLES ROWLAND |
28.12.1964
to at least 1969 |
| - |
|
| ERIC GARRATT |
here 03.1981 |
| - |
|
| GILLIANJ McGUIFFIN |
here 04.1995 |
| JOY HALSTEAD |
1997 - 2002 |
| STUART
WARWICK |
2002 - 2004 |
| MICHAEL
& CARON LEE |
by 10.2004 |
| SANDRA INGLIS |
November 2012 - March 2013 |
| Closed 2013 - Feb 2018 |
| WENDY & RICHARD PYNE |
February 2018 |
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Image by Helen McCallum - August 2000
The Live & Dead Farming Stock of Thomas Gill was Sold by Auction,
Wednesday, 3rd December 1851 since he had given up his occupation.
The Household Furniture, Sow, Pigs and other Effects of Mr. William
Etheridge were to be Sold by Auction Wednesday, 8th October 1862 since
he was leaving at Michaelmas. (10th October, old style).
Mr. & Mrs. Nichols started a thrift club when they
took over the house.
In the first year it raised £30. In 1949 about £540 was shared out.
Mr. Nichols served in the R.E.M.E. and in 1945, was taken ill whilst on
leave, and died. When Mrs. Nichols left the house, she was presented
with an eight-day clock by members of the Blue Lion Darts Club. She
moved to Boreham Wood, which is where the new licensee, William Gibbs,
came from.
It was reported 6th July 1951 that William Gibbs had decided that new
dart-boards of horse-hair or bristle were too dear at £5 each and so had
created one using coloured plasticine with a wire frame separating the
double and treble rings in order to ensure there were no arguments. He
had completed it about two weeks previously. For special games the board
could be rolled out and trimmed, ready for play again.
Although then said to be considered the only such
board in the country, there were certainly other houses in Norfolk using
similar boards.
Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
175 barrels of beer
38 spirits (gallons)
Closed March 2013
House awarded Asset of Community Value status September 2013.
Plans to run as Community Pub announced August 2014.
Unfortunately the owner, October 2014, advised that change of use had
been obtained and the building no longer legally a public house.
3rd November 2014 - newspaper reports that the
property has been added to the Breckland Council Community Asset
Register and the community has so far secured some £83,000 of the the
£250,000 needed to purchase the freehold.
24th November 2014.
Building owner confirms that the property is " not for sale, is
off the
market and is being leased as offices.
In any event the asking price had been £275,000 and not as reported in
newspaper."
HOWEVER........
Re-opened as a public house Friday 23rd February 2018
with new owners.
Closed December 2021.
Plans to convert to a private dwelling announced
March 2024.
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