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98 / 100 BULL CLOSE ROAD ST JAMES FULL LICENCE -
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 - PS 1/8/4 (1867 - 1965)
BULLARD    
YOUNGS & Co Freehold owned by the Mayor, Alderman & Citizens of Norwich
STEWARD & PATTESON from 1874, leasehold - purchased 1932.
WATNEY MANN    
NORWICH BREWERY   
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BRUCE MACE 1996
BATEMANS by 2007
PETER COLBY by November 2014
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Licensees :
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WILLIAM DAVIDSON
(Beer retail, St James' Road 1846)
1842 - *1846
MATTHEW WEBSTER
age  53 in 1851
*1850 - *1851
WILLIAM BULLARD by 1858 to 1859
Friday 17th June 1859 - Detained without bail, having been accused of buying stolen goods. (A gold watch had been stolen on Tuesday 21st June from Mr. Hindes as he walked on the Hellesdon Road, near the Ropemakers Arms.)
See opposite.
ROBERT GREAVES
& labourer
(as Robert Graves 1861)
by 1861
Old licence set aside owing to previously being fined for offences against the tenor of licence - Renewal considered Tuesday 25th August 1863.
HENRY BULLARD 02.03.1869
JAMES SUTTON 19.05.1874
TIMOTHY BENNETT 26.02.1875
Convicted 25.10.1877 of selling out of hours.
Fine 2/6d plus 17/6d costs.
THOMAS HOBART 27.04.1882
JOHN TILLETT junior 10.10.1885
FREDERICK SILCOCK 11.10.1886
WILLIAM JOHN HARPER 29.03.1887
SAMUEL MAYNARD 28.06.1887
RICHARD WILSON 10.10.1888
PATRICK WILBY
(Also found as Welby)
08.01.1889
SAMUEL PARKER 23.03.1897
JAMES WATSON 10.10.1899
JOHN JAMES KING 19.01.1904
ROSA KING 18.07.1916
JOHN JAMES KING 13.05.1919
ALBERT JAMES DAVIS 10.01.1922
RALPH HERBERT WALKER 05.04.1932
Convicted 12.01.1945 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine 10/-
FRANK GOLDSON 06.05.1947
ALBERT ROBERT MOORE 05.04.1951
STANLEY ALFRED HAYDON 13.07.1954
ERIC HORACE SANDERSON 26.08.1956
GEORGE HERBERT DOWSON 07.05.1957
BERTRAM CHARLES HIPPERSON 05.01.1965
ROSABEL MAUD HIPPERSON 23.11.1965
ALFRED JACK SOUTHGATE 19.07.1966
EDWARD KENNETH READ 18.07.1967
HARRY GEORGE HOPEWELL 08.06.1971
ERIC STANLEY JERMY 20.07.1976
JUNE & TERANCE ROYALL 09.01.1979
TERENCE DOWSON & ELIZABETH LONG 01.06.1993
DAVID DOWSON & ELIZABETH LONG 26.04.1994
DAVID DOWSON & JANICE ANDREWS 14.02.1995
JANICE ANDREWS & EDWARD HUXELL 31.10.1995
PATRICK JOHN MANN 13.02.1996
PATRICK MANN & ANDREW LAWLER 12.03.1996
PATRICK MANN & KAREN STEWARD 11.06.1996
KAREN STEWARD & BRUCE MACE 14.01.1997
KAREN STEWARD, BRUCE MACE
& DEBORAH BAILEY
09.02.1999
MALCOLM McCANN 02.2004
Tommy HOLBROOKE c2007
NEIL GREY 02 to 09.2009
Closed
SUE DICKERSON Feb 2010
SARAH LADI July 2011
Closed June 2013 to November 2014
BOB UTTING &
HANNAH COLBY
2013 to 2016
BOB UTTING &
MICHELLE ELDEN
2017 - 10.2019
JUSTIN McKEE &
EMMA BYRNE
15.11.2019

28.07.1996
July 1996

Also referenced as at St. Paul. (Adjoins the parish of St. James)

On Wednesday 10th June 1857, beerhouse keeper William Bullard, along with carter John Wright, was charged by a gamekeeper of having destroyed game on lands belonging to Sir W. Beauchamp, Bart. Bullard was fined £1 and £1 2s costs whilst Wright only had to pay 12s 6d costs. (Mr. Bullard was at the WINDSOR CASTLE to at least 1856, it is unclear when he left, but this house seems a likely beerhouse at that time.)

 Licensee William Bullard (39) was accused at Crown Court, Friday 29th July 1859, of receiving a gold watch, knowing it to be stolen. The watch had been taken from Mr. Henry Hindes by John Crotch (20), shoemaker and Philip Chapman (30) also a shoemaker. The watch was sold to Bullard for 30/- whereas it had cost £9.
Bullard confirmed that he had been convicted twice before for passing base coin, but had been in the police force for 12 years and a police sergeant for seven, but had borne a blameless character for the previous sixteen years.
The three were found guilty, but the jury asked for lenience towards Bullard owing to his previous good character. The Judge thought that Bullard was the worst offender since it was people like him who supported those wishing to dispose of stolen property.
Crotch and Chapman were each sentenced to four years penal servitude. Bearing in mind the wishes of the jury, and considering the seriousness of his crime, Bullard received `only' five years penal servitude.

 

Closed June 2013 and sold by Bateman's brewery.
Reopened November 2014 following refurbishment.

Awarded CAMRA Norwich & Norfolk Pub of the Year April 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

House no. 458 on 1845 Magistrates list

  The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
1900 No 8 3 No
Interior was two bars and snug but was altered to one room around central bar in 1977.
Pool room used to be the landlord's living room.
The cellar used to be under the bar but it is now moved outwards.
Stained glass detail to some windows.
Flocked wallpaper, red ceiling, some plasterwork;
Carpeted floor.
Chimneys have been removed.