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WALPOLE ISLAND FREEBRIDGE MARSHLAND BEERHOUSE CLOSED 14.08.1967
FREEBRIDGE LICENCE REGISTER PS 6/4/1 (1936 - 1960)
UNION BREWERY of Wisbech to 1866
John Woods July 1866
WILLIAM HENRY OVERMAN   
MILLS BREWERY of Wisbech -- purchased for £525 at 1912 sale
HALL, CUTLACK & HARLOCK   
EAST ANGLIAN BREWERIES   
STEWARD & PATTESON   
Licensees :
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THOMAS CLARKE 1846
LEE CLARKE (44)
and / or
THOMAS CLARKE (45)		 1851
THOMAS WEST
& farmer
& butcher 1858		 *1854 - 1865
Fine of £5 and 13s costs 8th June 1857 for permitting drunkenness on his premises.
April 1858 - Advised by the Chairman of Magistrates to be more cautious in future following a charge of an Aggregated Assault on his wife. Mrs West had reluctantly given evidence and said that her black eye was due to a fall. Charges dismissed.
Monday 15th May 1865 - Fine of 8s and 12s costs for drunkenness and riotous behaviour on 6th May.
JOHN WINKLEY 1868  -  1888
EVERETT WARD
& gardener
(Shopkeeper 1892)		 1891
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EDWARD DAY 1912
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ALMA KETTERINGHAM 1922 - 1925
HENRY BANE 1929 to 1959
EDITH ESTHER BANE 11.03.1959
WILLIAM HENRY PECK 21.10.1959

It was reported April 1858 that 17 years previously, when Mr. and Mrs. West were first married, all they possessed between them was 6s 6d. Through hard work, Mr. West was now in occupation of several acres of land, kept a public house, and both he and his wife were in comfortable circumstances. See opposite.

Lot 54 : Part of the Union Brewery Estate, sold by auction Wednesday 25th July 1866 for £510.
Buyer Mr. John Woods of Walpole St. Peter's.

Offered for sale by auction Saturday 8th June 1912, being part of the estate of the late William Henry Overman.
`All that fully-licensed brick-built and slated House, with stable, chaff-house, coal-house and other buildings and 2a 2r 18p (more or less) Arable and Pasture Land being part Nos. 1031 and 1033 on Ordnance Map (1902 edition). In the occupation of Mr. Edward Day.'
A extra £4 would be required for strawberry plants on the land.

Closure was subject to inspection by Mr. L Canham, as proposed at the First Joint Committee Meeting of Bullards and S&P 29.05.1962.
Sales given as 44 barrels.

45 7/8 barrels of beer sold in final year of trading.

Reason for closure given as -
"Surplus to trade requirements."

Licence not renewed at the Annual General Licensing Meeting 14th February 1968