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Gallon Pot
1 MARKET PLACE
CHURCH PLAIN
St. NICHOLAS  WARD FULL LICENCE CLOSED
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 & Y/CJ/32 (February 1903 - February 1953) & PS 18/14/2 (1953 - 1973)
LACON & Co 1824
WHITBREAD   
ENTERPRISE INNS By 2016 ( Trading as Ei by 2017)
Licensees :
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WOOLSEY HECKER (?) 1819
WILLIAM N. BURROUGHES
wine & spirit merchant
1824
WILLIAM NORTON BURROUGHES
wine & spirit merchant
(& Town Councillor) age 52
1839 - 1851
WILLIAM N BURROUGHS
wine & spirit merchant
1861 - 1886
T P BURROUGHS 1886 -1890
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SEPTAMUS WRIGHT
Wine merchants manager
1901
WILLIAM EDWARD HOWLING by 1903
ALBERT WALKER 10.01.1913
ARTHUR WELLINGTON EVERETT 05.02.1937
HARRY BURGESS 27.08.1940
CHARLES THOMAS BANHAM 18.08.1953
Licence restored 12.02.1960
HENRY JOHN HODDS  &
JAMES REGINALD FARLEY
19.04.1960
HENRY JOHN HODDS &
JOSEPH CHARLES EDMUND ALDOUS
13.12.1960
JOHN RICHARD McBRIDE &
JOHN GEOFFREY CLARKE
12.12.1967
JOHN R McBRIDE &
JOHN A HAMMOND
28.08.1969
JOHN R McBRIDE &
THOMAS GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH
26.10.1972
GEORGE CHARLTON HODGE &
THOMAS GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH
24.10.1974
GEORGE CHARLETON HODGE &
STEPHEN BASSETT
10.07.1975
THOMAS GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH 20.04.1976
PHYLISS AUDREY FIRTH 25.10.1979
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MIKE SPALDING 1994
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ANDREW HALL &
DANE REES
June 2014
MARIA & KIRK ARMSTRONG Sept 2018


Opened 1772 as BURROUGHS WINE LODGE.


In May 1828, William Burroughs offered Whitbread's Porter and Brown Stout in Butts, Barrels and Half-barrels. Families would be provided with Porter at 55s per Barrel and Brown Stout at 65s per Barrel. A discount of 5% given if the account was settled within one month.

Address 1886 as 1 & 2 Market Place

Noted in 1907 as the oldest licensed house in Gt. Yarmouth.

Taken over by Lacon & Co in 1897.
(Although the house is listed as the property of Lacon & Co in 1824?)


Address also as 2 Market Place or Brewery Plain.


Known as BURROUGH'S WINE STORES to 7th May 1943 when destroyed by a bomb dropped by a FW190.

Rebuilt as the GALLON POT to open 12th February 1960.

< img src="gpot22111996.jpg" width="368" height="220" />
November 1996

 

CLOSED by February 2018.

Plans announced by Ei March 2018 to carry out `dramatic renovation of interior..... and upgrade exterior' to create `an American-style diner... which could become the leading venue for food and functions in Yarmouth.'

Reopened October 2018.







See p. 8 of `Gt. Yarmouth in Old Postcards' - pub 1990

See p. 62 & 83 of `Gt. Yarmouth - A Second Selection' - pub 1996