| Licensees : |
| ROBERT LACKFORD |
1740's to 1747 |
Mrs WRIGHT
( died Sunday 25th November 1781 ) |
1748 to 1781 |
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| THOMAS RACKHAM |
1822 - 1834 |
| THOMAS RACKHAM junior |
1836 - 1846 |
SARAH ANN RACKHAM
( age 34 in 1851 ) |
1850 - * 1851 |
| HENRY LEE |
1854 |
| JAMES
CHAPMAN |
1856 |
| HENRY MARSH HARRISON |
1856 |
AARON MOBBS
& postmaster |
1865 - 1877 |
| JOHN FREDERICK TILLETT |
1879 |
| JOSEPH J. MARSHALL |
1881 |
| EDWARD ALLEN |
1882 - 1888 |
| JOSEPH J. MARSHALL |
1890 - 1892 |
WILLIAM
JOSHUA GOFFIN
( died 1938 ) |
1899 - 1938 |
MAY GOFFIN
( nee Cushing )
( 2nd wife of William Joshua Goffin ) |
1938 -
c1948 |
BILLY GOFFIN
Youngest son of William Joshua Goffin and his first wife
Sarah Margaret - nee Abram (1864 – 1916) |
c1948
to closure 1962 |
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c1914
Image supplied by Philip Standley.
A 17thC coaching inn.
The Norfolk Chronicle of 1st December 1781 reported that on ` Sunday last
died, Mrs Wright, who kept the Kings Head Inn, Wymondham, near forty
years'.
Included the Excise Office in 1830.
In 1830 the coach the TELEGRAPH called daily at 8:00am on route to London. It returned
every evening at 7:00pm
Mr Mobbs held a farewell tea on 8th March 1877
As the KINGS HEAD COMMERCIAL INN & POSTING HOUSE
in 1879.
With the coming of the railway, a horse bus ran from the inn to meet every passenger
train.
The property included a meadow ( today used by Wymondham Town Football Club ) &
bowling green.
A note from the Hon. Sec. F. Clements dated 5th February 1900 announces that the AGLM will
be held 26th April 1900 at 8:00pm and that the green will open Wednesday next at 2:00pm,
for a match to be played between two teams, selected from members present.
Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
110 barrels of beer
21 spirits.
Billy Goffin was the last licensee.
Demolished by April 1967.
Site now occupied by Woolworths store.
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