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Cellar House
72 BARRACK STREET
POCKTHORPE
St. JAMES BEERHOUSE CLOSED by 1938
STEWARD & Co Freehold owned by Steward, Patteson & Steward
Licensees :
ELIZABETH PALMER
according to Pigot
1839
EDWARD PALMER
according to Robson
1839
HENRY JACKSON 1842
JAMES PIGG
age 58 in 1851
1845 - 1861
JAMES COOK
according to Simpson
(James Matthews Cook according to White)
1864
WILLIAM ORD by 1865
HAROLD COOK 25.03.1873
Convicted 14.10.1874 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine 2/6d plus 20/6d costs or 7 days detention.
See opposite.
JOHN TIDMAN 11.10.1886
ARTHUR SAYER 06.04.1903
CHARLIE STEPHEN CRISP 30.08.1921
SAMUEL ALBERT METCALF 23.07.1935


On Monday 31st August 1874 licensed victualler Harold Cooke summoned William Collins, a hackney carriage driver, for assaulting him on the 29th August.
Collins was fined 1s and 5s(?) costs.
The Cellar House by George Plunkett - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002 - shown by permission
05.06.1937
Image by George Plunkett - shown by permission - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002


The CELLAR HOUSE GARDENS in S&P records, and previously known as the DUKE OF YORK.
Location given in 1845 as `Opposite the Brewery '.

On Sunday 17th August 1856 Chief Constable English entered the house at 11:00am. Inside he found 5 men and one pint of beer. On Wednesday 20th August Mr. Pigg explained to the magistrates that 4 of the persons were gardeners, hired by him and were merely resting. The 5th person, Mr. Hall, lived in Old Catton and was a traveller, who had stopped for a pint of beer for himself and one for his pony.
The magistrates concluded that Hall was not a legitimate traveller under the meaning of the Act.
Mr. Pigg was cautioned and ordered to pay costs.

William Ord appeared in court Saturday 2nd December 1865 with liabilities under £90 and his (order of discharge from) bankruptcy case was opposed.
House then described as a beerhouse.
William Ord, bankrupt, applied for an order of discharge Saturday 25th January 1866. Described as a licensed victualler (pauper), his debts were £86 15s 6d and assets £12 7s 8d. His application was opposed.

On Wednesday 14th October 1874 Harold Cooke was summoned for selling out of hours, since on 9th October, Sergeant Buckle had discovered three men and a woman drinking in the house at 11:40pm.
Cooke claimed that the drinks were his treat to two of the men since they had returned from Drayton with him and they had paid the fare.
The Chairman said Cooke had rendered himself to a heavy penalty, but in this case the fine would be 2s 6d and the costs 20s 6d.
Abraham Cannell and Walter Stangroom, two of the men present in the house were then fined for being in the house after closing time, Cannell was fined 10s and 17s 6d costs and Stangroom £1 and 17s 6d costs.

Licence removed to the GROVE, Earlham 10th May 1938.

The house was demolished `due to road widening' according to one S&P record, but another says that the site `is now in S&P garage '