| Licensees : |
| JOHN CHAPMAN |
1830 - 1839 |
RICHARD FOULSHAM
age 59 in 1851 |
1845 - 1856 |
WILLIAM BOWDEN
& bricklayer |
1865 - 1891 |
| Mrs CAROLINE BOWDEN |
1892 - 1896 |
| WALTER G. DODMAN |
1900 |
| WILLIAM BLYTH |
1904 - 1925 |
| HARRY P. HALL |
1929 - 1933 |
| FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT |
1937 |
|
A coaching inn by the early 17thC, parts of which could date back to late 15thC, or early
16thC.
In 1830 the coach the ROYAL MAIL from Norwich to London called daily at 6:00pm and
returned at 8:00am.
An auction of land at Crownthorpe was held here 06.08.1841. The tenant of the land was
Robert Lovick, who had notice to quit at Michaelmas next.
The land was being sold by James Blomfield Rush, later to be infamous for murders at
Stanfield Hall.
Richard Foulsham purchased a property in Vicar Street from John Fox, shoemaker, for the
sum of £63 as per an agreement dated 2nd April 1847. The occupants of the house were
Sarah Heron and a person named Lovick.
Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
65 barrels of beer
10 spirits
Became Wymondham Youth Centre from 1982.
( The panelled bar was still in situ then ) |
