LIVE & LET LIVE

Following being "enlisted" for five years, by a recruiting sergeant in December 1860, Mr. Cranmer became best shot in the West Norfolk Militia, No. 1 Company, winning a prize of £4 10s, "making him rich".

At the end of his 4th training session he became landlord of a licensed house, which he renamed LIVE & LET LIVE.

In 1863 he joined the Volunteers and was promoted to corporal and later became quartermaster-sergeant. In 1869 he was appointed quartermaster, which carried the honorary rank of captain.
In 1868, age 24, he had joined the local brass band, but upon being promoted to quartermaster, it was thought not to be etiquette to continue with what had become "Cranmer's Band".
(He served a total of 45½ years in the auxiliary forces)

The 1868 Trade Directory by White records Thomas Cranmer, beer retailer at Baxter Row.

On the morning of Sunday 16th August 1868, a police officer entered the house and asked licensee Thomas Cranmer if any customers had been in. With an answer to the negative, the officer examined the rooms, but they were empty. However when he inspected the cellar he discovered four local men.
On Wednesday 26th August, one of the men confirmed that before the arrival of the officer, the four had been in the kitchen of the `Live & Let Live', drinking either beer or porter.

In late 1865, Thomas Cranmer married Maria Wiseman.

By 1869 he is thought to be at the PRINCE OF WALES, High Street.

In 1875, Mr. Cranmer became an Auctioneer.

Mr. Cranmer of Canterbury House, corner of Quebec Road, died of pneumonia on the night of Tuesday, 20th January 1914, aged 69.