| Licensees : |
JOHN THORPE
barber |
1760 - 1764 |
| RICHARD MILLER |
1806 - 1811 |
THOMAS TURNER
& shoemaker |
1822 - 1839 |
ROBERT HERON HOWES
& coal merchant
( Robert HARVEY Howes 1856 ) |
1840 - 1859 |
| ELIZABETH HOWES |
by 1861 |
| WALTER BURROWS |
31.12.1879 |
| ESTHER BURROWS |
05.05.1891 |
| WILLIAM HOWARD |
07.02.1899 |
| ROBERT MARSHALL |
18.06.1901 |
| AMELIA MARSHALL |
05.04.1905 |
| HERBERT BIRBECK BLACKMORE |
13.06.1905 |
| JOHN ANDREWS |
09.10.1906 |
Convicted
21.11.1908 of being open out of hours.
Fine £2 plus 7/- costs or 14 days detention |
| SOPHIA ANDREWS |
12.01.1915 |
Convicted
24.03.1917 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine 30/- or 13 days detention. |
Convicted
24.01.1920 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine £1 or 13 days detention. |
| CAREY KITTLE |
22.06.1920 |
| LILY KITTLE |
15.11.1938 |
| ARTHUR WALTER LARKE |
05.04.1939 |
| ROGER CAWDRON |
1972 - 1978 |
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|
| COLIN BURGESS |
by 1987 |
| RITA McCLUSKEY |
Dec. 2000 |
|
Building dates back to 1249.
Built by monks, it is said, around a well dating from Saxon times.
Used for the purpose of brewing beer.
Address also as Tabernacle Row and Tabernacle Street.
Landlady Elizabeth Howes is reputed to have been responsible for smuggling contraband
liquor from Great Yarmouth, hidden in shipments of sand.
The renewal of licence was opposed by the Chief Constable as reported 11.02.1905. It was
said that the house stood some 10 yards back from the road and in the early hours was shut
off by large locked gates, preventing proper police supervision.
The house was said to stand 90 yards away from the next nearest licensed house and was
frequented by employees from the local timber yard and gas works. The owners said that
there had been no complaint about the situation of the house in the past hundred years.
It was undertaken not to lock the gates and the licence was renewed.
At the 1908 Sessions, as reported in the Norfolk Chronicle of 8th February 1908 the police
said that there were 3 other licensed houses within 200 yards and that the house stood
back from the roadway and was difficult to supervise. The police added that it was a very
old house and inconvenient. It was pointed out that gates that had been cause for previous
police complaint had been removed and that the house was a pleasant old fashioned
one....and its accommodation and conveniences were sufficient for the neighbourhood
requirements.
Again the house survived, by the unanimous decision of the Bench.
Beerhouse in 1937
In 1971 this was the last house in Norwich selling `beer from the wood'
The first bar was installed in the house in 1973. |
