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KINGS HEAD NORWICH K index
Kings Head index
42 MAGDALEN STREET St SAVIOUR  
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/3 ( 1867 to 1953 )
YOUNGS & Co ( As Crawshay in 1845 )
BULLARDS 1958
WATNEY MANN   
COURAGE Transferred from Watney Mann to Courage 27.01.1972
FREEHOUSE   
Licensees :
JOHN SHIRLEY
( also found as STURLEY )
1760 - 1798
WILLIAM COLLS 1802
F. DAMANT 1811
SAMUEL KING 1830
ROBERT CURTIS 1836 - 1839
ROBERT BASEY
& cordwainer
1839 - 1856
JOHN MIDDLETON
& weaver
by 1859
ROBERT MARSHALL
& fish market
05.11.1867
THOMAS REACH 22.12.1870
WILLIAM LEACH 28.06.1871
EPHRAIM LARGE 28.06.1872
ARTHUR DUNN 19.02.1873
JAMES THOMPSON 29.06.1875
GEORGE RAMSBOTTOM 07.05.1901
CHARLES NIXON 05.04.1904
Convicted 25.02.1916 of keeping open out of hours.
Fine £1 or 13 days detention
MARY ANN NIXON 15.10.1935
WALTER BAILEY KEELER 20.11.1951
CHARLES DOUGLAS SKIPPER 18.11.1952
HORACE SIDNEY HARE 17.11.1953
JOHN GREGORY LAWRENCE 05.04.1957
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PAUL CORNWELL 07.1975 - 1978
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ROLAND COOMBER & JONATHAN SMITH 05.2005 
Kings Head - 1997
1997

The Norfolk Chronicle reported...
Norwich, December 16th 1783.
At a Meeting of the Yarn-makers held here this day, it was unanimously agreed to call a general Meeting of the Trade, residing in the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk, to be held at the KING'S HEAD in Magdalen Street, on Friday the January 2d next, at Six o'Clock in the Evening, in order to consider how far it may be right to act in Conjunction with the County of Suffolk, etc in obtaining a Bill in Parliament for the better Regulation of Yarns.



The entrance to the courtyard has an emblem
`The Crown Brewery'

Address as 116 Magdalen Street in 1802

Closed 2004.

Extensively renovated to re-open
May 20th 2005
Selling beer from some 14 handpumps and
on gravity. Bottled Belgian beers and NO kegs.

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