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OSTRICH SOUTH CREAKE Index
Corner of GROCER LANE
 Fakenham Road		 BROTHERCROSS HUNDRED FULL LICENCE NR21 9PB
SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTERS PS 13/4/1 & 2 (1949 to 1975)
MORGANS   
BULLARDS    
WATNEY MANN to closure 06.01.1972
FREEHOUSE (Robert Michael Moore of West Somerton - 1973)
PUNCH TAVERNS By 2013
STAR PUBS & BARS (Heineken UK) from July 2018
Licensees :
Mrs MARY SOFTLEY
Age 40 in 1841		 1841 - 1846
ROBERT BURTON
age 43 in 1851
& lime burner
Died 1874		 1850 - 1874
November 1865 - Fine of 7s 6d and 12s costs for permitting drunkenness in his house.
MARIA MITCHELL
(Executrix of the late Robert Burton)		 to 08.1874
WILLIAM MITCHELL
& lime burner
(Father of Maria Mitchell)		 29.08.1874 - 1879
ROBERT CRISP
Age 37 in 1881		 1881 - 1900
JOHN VERTIGAN 1904 - 1929
WILLIAM V. BENSTEAD 1933 - 1937
JAMES PEASE by 1949
JOHN WILLIAM MENDHAM 22.09.1952
DAVID WILLIAM STEPHENSON 07.02.1972
ROBERT MICHAEL MOORE 05.02.1973
PETER & LAURA SUTTON c1978
FAY & PETER BELTON here 01.1980
ALAN GOTTS 1985 - 1986
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MARY-ANN JONES here 07.1993
CHARLES MORRIS here 08.1997
 
ANDREW FELTON by 02.2024


The sign in 1993 - Image by Steve Shaw
The sign 1993 - Image by Steve Shaw
 South Creake - Ostrich - November 2000
November 2000


Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
Barrels of beer - 74
Spirits - 11 (gallons)

15.11.2001
November 2001
Sales reported February 1909 as 299½ barrels during the previous three years. Sales of minerals being about two dozen per week. Little wine was sold.
18th November 1986 - Landlord Alan Gotts reported two raids in three weeks. In the first, £350 was taken from the till and the charity boxes for Handicapped Children and the Lifeboat Appeal were taken in the second robbery.


Trading as the PLUME OF FEATHERS from April 2015.

Closed June 2017 and new owners, Star Pubs & Bars announce re-opening to follow refurbishment and that the name OSTRICH may return....  15th August 2018
Still closed January 2019....
August 2019....Still closed, but recently made `An Asset of Community Value' to give some protection from redevelopment.