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BURNT STREET NORTH GREENHOE HUNDRED BEERHOUSE CLOSED by 1895
Nathan & Elizabeth Newstead Sold to Robert Harrison 30th May 1786
Robert Harrison Died 1796
Thomas Harrison 1796. Purchased 10th November 1826 by Charles Holman.
Charles Holman (Age 50 in 1841, occupation as farmer, living in Burnt Street. Age 64 in 1851, lodging at the Wheatsheaf  - Died Q1 1852)
Joseph Taylor Sold to John Clark, 20th December 1858.
John Clark Miller age 25 in 1851. Then lodging at Buttlands with James West.
Corn miller - 1856, 1864 - Burnt Street.
Miller & farmer 1858,  1861, 1863, 1865 - All at Burnt Street.
Died 5th September 1865.
(A John Clarke, butcher,  is given at the Kings Arms, Freeman Street, from 1864)
Elizabeth Clark Sold to Charles Wharf, 1st September 1866.
Charles Wharf from September 1866
ELIJAH EYRES Sold by Charles Wharf to Charles Miller, brewer of Lynn for £215, 25th November 1878
Sold by Charles Miller to Algernon Royds Bently, John Greene & Charles Miller (Elijah Eyres) for £250, 28th February 1879
Licensees :
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ROBERT HOUGHTON
(Butcher in 1841 age 65 and in 1851, age 78, living at Lion Yard in both census returns. Beer retailer at East End in 1845?)		 1840's?
.......... KIRKE undated
WILLIAM HOLMAN
Died 1858		 26.05.1854
JOHN CLARK
Owner		 1858 - 1865
Mrs. ANN BUNTING
(Tenant of John Clark?)		 *1863 - *1865
CHARLES WHARF
& brewer
Age 24 in 1871
(Apprentice blacksmith in 1861, Furrier at Gambles Yard 1881 - Died Q1 1906 ?)		 05.09.1866- 1878
CHARLES MILLER
brewer of Kings Lynn.
Owner from November 1878		 25.11.1878



At some time before 1770's the RED LION, Lion Yard, Quay, was known as the ROYAL OAK.
This house seems to have been established at a much later time.

Exactly when this property in Burnt Street became a beerhouse has yet to be identified.

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Offered for sale by auction 22nd July 1878 as a freehold beerhouse.

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Owing to the death of C. Miller, co-partner in Elijah Eyre Breweries, offered for sale again 28th February 1879, `that messuage or dwelling house, with barn, stables, and other buildings, yard, gardens and land belonging...... total of 19 perches.....'
Sold for £250 to other directors of Elijah Eyres.
The sales contract listed the current occupant as Charles Wharf and named previous parties from Mr. Houghton to Mr. Clarke, who were probably owners rather than licensees.
Mrs. Bunting is identified as running a beerhouse in Burnt Street in the 1860's, which is almost certainly this house.

Became a shop by 1897.

Described in 1895, when again offered for sale, as a shop, formerly the ROYAL OAK, but still owned by Elijah Eyres.

Update on owners 1780' to 1878 thanks to the researches of Micheal Welland - May 2025.

 

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