| Licensees : |
| ROBERT SNEAR |
1760 - 1764 |
WILLIAM COLEMAN
( took over house by 28th October 1780 ) |
1780 - 1798 |
| HENRY WAKE |
1802 |
| JOHN BALL |
1802 |
| THOMAS SADLER |
1811 - *
1825+ |
| WILLIAM THOMAS SADDLER |
1830 - 1839 |
|
|
|
Mentioned in the trial of `Royalist rioters' 1648.
Robert Haddon said he was attending at the Angel at the time of the blowing up of the
Committee House.
In October 1751 the Norwich Mercury announced that, "Mr Pinchbeck's
Panopticon machine" and the "Learn'd French Dog" were to be
seen at the Angel in the marketplace.
Address as 25 Market Place 1783, 16 Market Place in 1802.
The meeting place of the Masonic Lodge 83 on fourth Wednesday of the month
in 1783.
The Norfolk Chronicle of 14.08.1814 advertised that the `Telegraph', a new and light day
coach, departed from here for London every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 8:00am.
Insides were charged at 25 shillings, outsides at 15 shillings.
Travel was through Stratton, Scole, Eye, Ipswich, Colchester, Witham and Chelmsford,
arriving at the THREE NUNS, Whitechapel at precisely 9:00pm.
In 1815 Lord Albermarle and Norfolk Member of Parliament, T. W. Cooke were chased into the
Angel by an angry mob that they had managed to upset in the nearby Jolly Farmers. The mob
broke down gates but were kept back by staff while the unfortunate pair slipped out of the
back and headed on horseback for the safety of the countryside.
( They headed for Quidenham )
The Duke of Wellington stayed here in 1820.
Headquarters of the Whigs in 1830's
By 1830 the `Times' left for London at 5:45 am and the `Royal Mail' at 5:00pm - every day.
A Post Coach left for Cromer at 3:30pm every day except Sundays and only on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Saturdays in the Winter.
Site became that of the ROYAL HOTEL c1840 - 1897
|
