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THE STREET EARSHAM HUNDRED FULL LICENCE -
EARSHAM LICENCE REGISTERS PS 21/3/1 (Feb 1932- Feb 1947)
HARLESTON BREWERY Sold to Mr. Waters of Diss for £605 (Village then called RUISHALL)
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN   
NORWICH BREWERY to closure 1983
FREEHOUSE by 1991 (Owner Graham Kerry 1987)
JOHN HYDE from 1993
TOM HOSKINS BREWERY of Northampton, from June 1998
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Licensees :
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RICHARD BOTWRIGHT 1828
CHARLES SHEPPARD 1836
SAMUEL PEARCE 1845 - 1846
JAMES CATCHPOLE
age 38 in 1851
1851 - 1879
HENRY E. WRAGG 1881 - 1883
Friday 17th June 1881 - Fine of £1 and 12s costs for keeping his house open at illegal hours on Sunday 5th June. The three men found drinking in the house were each fined 5s and costs.
JAMES CORKE
(also as James Cork)
1888 - 1900
GEORGE MICKLEBURGH
(Died Monday evening 12th November 1923 - Age 70)
1904 - 1908
Friday 2nd April 1909 - Fine of £1 and £1 9s 6d costs for causing two pigs to be cruelly mis-treated between 1st and 9th March.
WALTER THURLOW
(Died March 1954 - age 84. Said to have been here about 16 years)
1912 - 1925
Mrs MABEL LINDER 1929
JAMES GOODWIN
(here about 6 years)
(Age 88 in 1952)
by 1932
JOHN SAMUEL HURRY
(Jack Hurry - died 1962)
by 1937 - 1962
Mrs. HELEN JEAN HURRY 14.06.1962 - 06.1963
WILLIAM  NEWBY
(Bill)
13.06.1963 - 1981
DORIS NEWBY 1981 - to October 1982
Closed 1983
GRAHAM & DIANE KERRY by 07.1986 - 1992
JOHN HYDE &
HEATHER McMAHON
03.03.1993
JOHN HYDE &
DEBBIE PLEASANTS
January 2016
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Closed early 2017
RAY PAUL & SARAH CAMPBELL-JONES by November 2017



  On the night of Wednesday 15th February 1843, Edward Sandy, a tailor, who had completed a pledge to be teetotal for a year and a day, enjoyed two pints of beer at the Half Moon. Feeling intoxicated, he left, and in the darkness, fell into a deep ditch. Nearly torn to pieces by the thorns, he was discovered dead the following morning near Langmere, in the parish of Dickleburgh.  


Lot No. XVII in the sale of Harleston Brewery properties 3rd July 1828.
In occupation of Richard Botwright.

A sale of properties was held here 2nd June 1835.

Transferred to Dickleburgh Parish under the Norfolk Country Review Order of 01.04.1935.
Under the jurisdiction of Diss Petty Sessions from then.

On Wednesday 1st March 1843, E. Sandy, a tailor from Brockdish, celebrated the completion of his twelve month tee-totaller pledge by drinking two pints of beer at the Half Moon. Upon leaving he was so intoxicated that he fell into a ditch and was much torn and lacerated by the briars and thorns. He was discovered dead the following morning, lying in the road at Langmere, Dickleburgh.

According to the Diss Express of 26th December 1947, there was great excitement in the Half Moon when a bull entered the public bar.

House closed from November 1982 upon the retirement of landlady Doris Newby.

160 Lots of Household Furniture and Effects, the property of Mrs. H. J. Hurry were to be Sold By Auction, Saturday, 11th May 1963, since she was moving.

A Polling Station operated here and in April 1963, despite the rain, 37 people registered their vote.

It is reported that following closure, in 1983, the fixtures & fittings were removed from the premises "to prevent vandalism".....and then burnt in the car park. Norwich Brewery refusing to sell the property as a Free House and only offering the property to the village as a licensed club or community center at a rent of £58 per week.


De-licensed 1984

Reopened as a freehouse.

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