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BULL HOTEL WATTON index
HIGH STREET
FRONT STREET
WAYLAND HUNDRED FULL LICENCE
WAYLAND LICENCE REGISTER PS 15/3/1 ( 1937 - 1969 )

STEWARD & PATTESON

  
WATNEY MANN     
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Licensees :
SAMUEL ELLINGTON 1781
-  
CHARLOTTE MANN 1822 - 1830
JOHN CANHAM
age 50 in 1851
( brewer 1845 )
1836 - 1851
THOMAS SPANTON 1854
Mrs FRANCES SPANTON
widow age 59 in 1861
- age 60 in 1871!
1856 - 1871
Miss SARAH SPANTON
age 49 in 1881
( boarding house keeper in 1891 )
1875 - 1888
JOHN WELCHER 1890 - 1892
EDWARD SAYER
age 33
* 1901
.
LIONEL CHARLES DENNISS by 1937
WILLIAM CLAUD DEAN 10.03.1939
ROBERT CECIL HOWLETT 06.10.1939
WILLIAM LOUIS PAGE 13.12.1940
CECIL LESLIE FRENCH 20.05.1949
ALFRED JAMES CHARLES MARKS 07.02.1969

The Norfolk Chronicle of 1st December 1781 reported ...

To be sold at Auction, by Richard Bacon, By Order of the Assignees of Francis Hicks, a Bankrupt, on Thursday the 6th Day of December, Instant between the hours of two and five in the Afternoon, at the George Inn, Watton, in the County of Norfolk.

Lot 2 All the Public House, in Watton aforesaid, called the Bull, with the Outhouses, Stable, Yard, and spacious Garden to the same belonging, now in the Occupation of Samuel Ellington.
Also a Dwelling House to the said Premises adjoining, now in the Occupation of Edward Stebbing


Recommended in D. A. Yates 1969 guide.

Many thanks to Janelle Penney for the 1781 newspaper transcription
taken with permission, from © film provided by the
British Library Newspaper Library
Thanks also to Robert Campbell.