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LYNN ROAD FREEBRIDGE MARSHLAND - CLOSED
Owner Mr. Ward of Wisbech, 1871 - Leased to Elijah Eyre & Co.
Licensees :
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GEORGE GRINSTEAD *1854 - *1856
DANIEL GRIMSTEAD 1857 - 1870
Monday 10th August 1857 - Charged with allowing card playing in the house - Case dismissed.
Monday 15th May 1865 - Fine of £2 and 12s costs for permitting drunkenness in his house on 2nd May.
Monday 4th February 1867 - Fine of 5s and 11s costs for keeping house open on Sunday 12th January.
(Sold ¾ pint gin to beerhouse keeper Jane Tansley)
WILLIAM JAMES GREGORY
(William Joseph Gregory as March 1871 report)		 September 1870 - to May 1871
Monday 21st March 1871 - Paid the full penalty of £5, including costs, for permitting drunkenness in his house on 4th March. At the time of the hearing Gregory was on bail having been accused of the manslaughter of Valentine Tansley, who he had died of excessive drinking on the night of the offence.
Monday 15th May 1871 - Magistrates order to compel Joseph Gregory to quit the premises, granted at the request of Messrs. Eyre & Co.
See below.
WILLIAM ROYAL / ROWELL 29.09.1871


On 15th May 1871, the magistrates informed the brewers that, should a man named Johnson be proposed to take on the licence, then they would oppose.
Messrs. Eyre said that they intended Mr. Wallman Huckle of Upwell to take up the position. (At the Queen's Head Upwell to at least 1869 - no record found of him coming to Walsoken.)

In 1854 and 1856 George Grimstead is given as a beer retailer in New Walsoken.

Only found by name in 1864, 1865, 1868 & 1869.

Daniel Grimstead is in the 1861 census given as a baker, age 27, living with his parents (George, a grocer, age 75 and Elizabeth 74), with the address as Walsoken Road, Walsoken.

Elizabeth Taylor, living with Daniel Grimstead at the Marshland Inn committed suicide by hanging, in her bedroom, during the night of Saturday 7th May 1870. "An excessive drinker for about a fortnight". Verdict of "suicide while in a state of insanity".

On Monday 4th September 1871, Mr. Philips of Wisbech applied for transfer of the Marshland Inn licence to the to the Three Tuns, a beerhouse. The magistrates said the proposition would be considered, "if a proper application was made."

At a hearing Monday 20th November 1871, a new licence was applied for since a tenant had been hired to run the house.
The magistrates said they had fully considered the case and had decided to decline the application. The licence had previously been refused through gross misconduct at the house. It was said that it was a disgrace to the neighbourhood and the resort of prostitutes and thieves. Mr. William Royal had been in possession of the house since 29th September and was still there. He had been at his last house for 17½ years. No licence had been granted at the General Licensing Sessions, and none since.
Application refused.

On Wednesday 3rd January 1872 an appeal was made at the County Court for re-instatement of the licence.
It was heard that the house had been licensed for "nearly a century" and William Joseph Gregory had taken the licence in September 1870, but owing to misconduct on 29th April 1871, he was given notice by Messrs. Eyres on 2nd May. Failing to respond, an order was granted on the 15th May and Gregory gave up peaceable possession. He was to be succeeded by Wallman Huckle, but on the 5th June 1871 his application was refused.
At the annual general licensing meeting on 4th September, no application for licence was made, but on 20th November , William Rowell produced a certificate of character and applied for the licence.
The application was refused.
(The licence of the house expiring on 10th October 1871)

At the Court of the Queen's Bench, 5th and 10th June 1872 an appeal to issue a licence to Mr. Rowell was refused.