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COMMON
HAPPING HUNDRED BEERHOUSE
later FULL LICENCE
CLOSED 1997
TUNSTEAD & HAPPING LICENCE REGISTERS PS 11/4/1 to PS 26/18/3 (Feb 1928 - Feb 1974)
LACONS   
WHITBREAD Closed c1976
Freehouse Reopened 1977 : Closed January 1997
Licensees :
CHRISTOPHER CUSHION
& shopkeeper
Age 65 in 1841
*1836 - 1845
JOSEPH PYE
age 72
*1851 - *1856
ROBERT JIMPSON 1858 - 1869
CHARLES CLARKE
& farmer
*1871 - *1877
RICHARD SALMON 1879 - *1881
WILLIAM JAMES COOKE IRESON
& shopkeeper
(William Eason 1888 ?)
1883 - 1888
CHARLES CASON
& grocer
Age 34 in 1891
*1890 - 1911
Mrs HARRIET MARTHA CASON
(age 60 in 1911)
1912
Mrs ROSANNA MANTHORPE by 1914 - 1916
HENRY / HARRY JARVIS 1922 - 1925
ABRAHAM ARTHUR AMIS by 1928
CHARLES JOHN GREEN 10.02.1959
.CLIFFORD HARRY SILLIS 16.02.1976
.LAWRENCE GERALD MAY &
MARTIN HOWARD GROCOTT
20.09.1976
DAVID WILLIAM PURCELL  &
LEONARD ALFRED BAXTER
14.01.1980


c1965
July 1995
July 1995

**Christopher Cushion is at an un-named house in 1836.
Princess Victoria became Queen (aged 18) in 1837
upon the death (20th June 1837) of William IV .

Described as a Beer-shop in 1855.

Lacons sought to renew the licence of Mrs. Rosanna Manthorpe on Tuesday 3rd March 1914 in spite of objection on the grounds of redundancy. It was said that the Victoria had a frontage of 40ft. 6in. and comprised public kitchen, sitting-room, grocery shop, back kitchen, cellar, storeroom on the ground floor and a sitting room and four bedrooms above, the staircase to which was in the kitchen, there being a ladder in the back kitchen also leading to the rooms above. There were stables for five horses. The "sanitary accommodation" was said to be insufficient and the house and buildings were in a dirty condition.
Messrs. Lacons said the previous tenant had been at the house for about 25 years and the house would be made better if the shop was done away with.
The Chairman advised that two of the Bench had visited the house and were quite satisfied that the house was not required.
Lacons confirmed that trade in 1913 was 70½ barrels of beer and 368 dozen bottles of beer. In 1912 it had been 44½ barrels and 200 dozen of bottles, in 1911 it was 38 barrels and 130 dozen bottles.
With licence renewal the shop would become part of the public house.
Mrs Manthorpe was a widow with six children and when her husband died, she had taken a house at Heydon, but could not make it pay, she then came to the Victoria and was doing increasing trade.
The Bench were unanimous in referring the licence for compensation. One of the Bench was Lord Kimberley who stated that he would do away with all public houses, and hotels too...

 

The house was licensed to sell beer only until 23rd February 1959 when a full licence was issued.


Structural alterations were carried out by Lacons from March to July 1961.