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6 GUILDHALL STREET
St. MARYS
THETFORD BOROUGH BEERHOUSE CLOSED 04.03.1971
GRIMSHOE LICENCE REGISTER PS 14/5/1 (1926 - 1954) & THETFORD LICENCE REGISTER PS 14/5/2 (1921 - 1965)
BIDWELL & Co    
BULLARDS 1924
WATNEY MANN to closure 1971
Licensees :
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MATTHEW DRIVER 1822
PETER FINCH
(Peter Fitch 1839, 1845 & 1846)
1830 - 1846
ROBERT SPENDLOVE
Age 47 in 1861
1849 - 1865
Mrs PHILLIS SPENDLOVE
Age 60 in 1871
1868 - 1879
GEORGE STEWART SALMON
Age 69 in 1891
(George Steward Salmon 1892)
* 1881 - 1892
JOHN CARTER
Age 46 in 1911
Died December 1930 - age 67
by 1893
Mrs ETHEL ADA CARTER
Married John Carter Q4 1925
(b.22.08.1893 - d.12.1983 - age 90)
05.02.1931
...... CARTER c1962
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It was reported February 1950 that Mrs. Carter was the only female licensee in the borough and that the house had been in the hands of the Carter family for over 57 years.
Mrs Carter was born at the house and her late husband, John, was the son of Ellis Carter, who for many years ran the CHEQUERS at Great Ellingham.

Mrs. Carter still did the cellar work but her daughter Miss Barbara Carter was then doing most of the bar work. Mrs. Carter's father was James Kybird who served in the bar when he was 83. He was still alive at the time of the report.
In the 1891 census James Kybird was a wheelwright at Croxton and aged 32. In 1911 he was at Magdalen Street, Thetford, still employed as a wheelwright and carpenter. Mr. Kybird probably retired to the Dog & Partridge c1920 and and it would be 1942, when he was 83.

The statement that the Carter family were at the house for over 57 years apparently puts Mr. Carter at the house from 1893.

When John Carter married Ethel Kybird in 1925, he would have been about 61 years old and Ethel would have been 32.

(In 1911, John Carter is married to Mary.  The death of a Mary Carter is recorded at Thetford in June 1924, age 61. Same person?)

Maria Mann was convicted of stealing a wash of linen, value 1s, from the premises during January 1849. A sentence of two months with hard labour was given. In June 1849 she was again before the magistrates for stealing 4s or 5s, a week's earnings, from a lad named Howard.

Licensee Spendlove provided a handsome dinner for the cricket teams of Thetford and Feltwell on Wednesday 20th September 1849. The cricket match had been friendly and well conducted with Feltwell winning by one run and seven wickets to go.

Valued 25th July 1889 at £820

104 barrels of beer plus 35 barrels of bottled beer sold in the final year of trading.

The only public house found in Guildhall Street.

Demolished.