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HALL ROAD LAKENHAM FULL LICENCE  CLOSED February 1995
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/3 & PS 1/8/4 (1925 - 1965 )
YOUNGS, CRAWSHAY & YOUNGS  
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN Run by the Wells family 1965 to 1989 : Terry Dowson from September 1989
MANNS & NORWICH BREWERY
(Grand Metropolitan)		 as given 1989 when `drive in restaurant' first proposed October 1989.
Lessee Don McCallion from December 1990 (McCallion Leisure)
Franco Guarino by July 1992
Innkeeper from August 1993
Maclennan Inns by 01.1995
Licensees :
WILLIAM GEORGE TYRRELL 10.03.1931
BERTIE GEORGE KING 07.04.1931
JAMES GORDON WARD 03.01.1933
HERBERT HENRY SMITH 09.03.1954
ROBIN ANTHONY EDMUNDS 18.11.1958
ARTHUR ALFRED WELLS 20.07.1965  - 1973+
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THELMA EVERETT
manager		 April 1987
MICK BATCH
manager		 May 1988
MIKE & CAROLINE LANSDOWN
managers		 September 1989
ROBERT ELLIOTT
manager		 04.1991
FRANK CLUTTERBUCK
manager		 02.1992
JIMMY RICHARDS by 08.1993
NICK & VAL WEST by 07.1994

The Tuckswood by George Plunkett - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002 - shown by permission
08.04.1933
Image by George Plunkett - shown by permission - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002


Licence of the BUTCHERS ARMS, Ber Street, transferred 10.03.1931.

A drive through restaurant, built on the car park, was proposed by Grand Metropolitan Estates October 1989. It was claimed that the pub's large function room and car park had not been used to their full potential. Loss of the function room would increase the viability of the pub. House then said to be on a short term lease to a management company, having changed hands in the summer.

A reported £100,000 facelift carried out 1991 including £7,000 on a play area.
Re-opened by Miss Beautiful Eyes, 1991, Tiffany Stanford, 11th April 1991.
Closed without warning 11th February 1992. Owners Grand Metropolitan Estates said the sudden closure was regrettable.

Known as FRANCO'S PARADISE GARDENS from re-opening July 1992,
but back to the TUCKSWOOD by August 1993.

On the final day of trading the remaining stocks of beer were sold at 95p per pint and spirits at 75p a shot.

Closed 5th February 1995 and demolished by April 1995 to make way for a burger bar and car wash.
  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
1930's No 6 4 Yes
Example of large inter-war `road' house catering for the family and the traveller. Very large and spacious interior and large car park typical of the period. The mock Tudor facade and the domestic characteristics associated with this style illustrate a shift towards cosiness and respectability and away from the brash and gaudy imagery of the late 19th C pub associated with the vertical drinker.
Bar reflects the `U' shape of the building and is lit by a large skylight with a series of bar areas compartmented by original walls like side chapels at right angles to the bar counter and main area of circulation.
Original central heating radiators.
Original exposed brickwork to arches to bar areas and fireplaces.
Most furnishings and fittings are 1960's and later.