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SOUTH PARK AVENUE

EATON

FULL LICENCE

CLOSED 1997
DEMOLISHED

NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/4 (1953 to 1965)
LACONS
WHITBREAD

Licensees :
DONALD BERNARD BLANCHARD	21.11.1961
JOHN RICHARD McBRIDE & ARTHUR ROBERT CHARLES SELF	23.07.1974
GEORGE CHARLES HODGE & ARTHUR ROBERT CHARLES SELF	03.09.1974
JOHN EDWARD THOMAS WOODS & ARTHUR SELF	13.06.1978
JOHN EDWARD THOMAS WOODS & DAVID CANT	09.01.1979
JOHN WOODS	04.05.1982
MICHAEL CARL WESTLEY & STEPHEN LAWSON	14.02.1984
DAVID ALWHY (?) & ERIC ARTHUR HENDERSON	12.02.1985
DAVID ALAN SETTERFIELD	10.09.1985
DEREK FRANK BAKER & MICHAEL MADDEN	22.07.1986
MICHAEL MADDEN	22.07.1986
LEN & PAT HILSUM	12.12.1989
JAMES McGUIGAN temporary manager	09.1990 - 07.1991
BERNARD CEDRIC HURRELL & PAUL RAY	07.09.1992
WINIFRED JEAN McNISH & BERNARD CEDRIC HURRELL	10.11.1992
NICHOLAS JAMES WINICOT & JOAN LILY ATKINSON	27.04.1993
NEIL McCLENNEN & STEPHEN PAUL RIDDELL	22.03.1994
GARY FOX senior manager	04.1995
STEPHEN KAYE & SANDRA REID	27.06.1995

Image by Charlie & George Ducker - c1996

Image by Charlie & George Ducker

First licence issued 21.11.1961 following final removal from the
CURRIERS ARMS 11.10.1960.

On one evening in Rag Week of June 1970, over 1000 students attended the pub and drank over 300 gallons of beer, brewers Whitbread donating 2p for every pint, to the charitable event.

Traded as the JEKYLL & HYDE 1984 to 1986

The Jekyll & Hyde - 1985
In the guise of the JEKYLL & HYDE - 1985

Plans to close announced September 1996.
Plans to demolish & build 6 houses announced 23rd September 1997.

Demolished by February 1998 and site rebuilt as housing.

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
1962 - 1963	No	6	5	No
(Surveyed as the Jekyll & Hyde) Detached with large garden and car park in Council house area. Two bars of different `characters' Jekyll bar conventional Edwardian pastiche. Plastic ceiling, fake gaseliers, cornice. Buttoned leatherette seats, seating bays with low cope curtains on rods between plastic foliage plants. Pool and darts area. Rectangular bar with melamine wood grained top. Hyde Park bar - Neo Art Deco with cocktail flavour. Well co-ordinated interior with turquoise tables, upholstered settees creating seating bays. Bold patterned carpet extending across floor and up front of bar. Extensive use of special effects, some decorative. e.g. reflective faceted mirrors, video screens, juke box, ceiling fans, revolving coloured lights. A `Disco' interior. Large car park reflects the 1960's passion for driving everywhere, perhaps even to one's local.