| Licensees : |
| ABEL CHAPMAN |
from 1875 |
| STEPHEN HENRY NASH |
09.04.1878 |
| ROBERT COLLETT |
05.07.1881 |
| THOMAS MARTIN DICKERSON |
03.08.1881 |
| EDMUND JERMY |
19.01.1904 |
| GEORGE AMIES |
13.01.1914 |
| ARTHUR FREDERICK SEAMAN |
18.10.1932 |
| CHARLOTTE SEAMAN |
12.02.1946 |
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Licence of the FIREMANS ARMS removed to Abel Chapman 1875.
MANCROFT TAVERN 1877
Located on the SW corner of Mancroft Street and St. Peters Street.
Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942, but trading continued in spite of having no doors
or windows.
Address given as 50 Mancroft Street in 1950
Number 39 in 1954 & 1956.
Run from 1932 by Arthur and Charlotte Seaman.
Arthur died in 1945 but Mrs Seaman was there until closure 1966.
Speaking of the closure, she `appreciated the impossibility of running a small pub when
the takings did not pay for the coal fire.'
63¾ barrels of beer sold in the final year of trading. |
