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CYGNET NORWICH C index
147 CHURCHILL ROAD POCKTHORPE FULL LICENCE DEMOLISHED MARCH 2006
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/2  (21 August 1894 - 1925)
STEWARD & PATTESON  
WATNEY MANN  
NORWICH BREWERY  
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PHOENIX INNS  
ROYSAN Ltd to August 2000
Licensees :
JOHN WICKS
(Previously at the Two Necked Swan)
10.10.1898
Convicted 29.09.1908 of permitting drunkenness.
Fine 20/- plus 6/6d costs or 7 days detention.
JOHN WILLIAM MUSK 19.01.1909
WILLIAM WALTER WALE 10.05.1938
ARTHUR GEORGE NASH 28.08.1951
PHILIP PETER CHIPPERFIELD 04.04.1973
PETER HENRY DUNTHORNE 26.02.1985
TERENCE DOWSON &
ROGER COOPER
30.04.1991
PHILIP WHITE 10.11.1992
SUSANNE MacKENZIE,
GLEN WHITE &
ROY ABRAHAMS
12.08.1997
GLEN WHITE &
PATRICK SIMMONS
16.06.1998
WILLIAM DUNBAR,
SUSAN DUNBAR &
PATRICK SIMMONS
08.12.1998
GLEN WHITE &
PATRICK SIMMONS
13.04.1999
PATRICK SIMMONS &
JOHN McGUINESS
14.12.1999





Fine brickwork above the main door.

The Cygnet - c1984
c1984

Opened 10th October 1898 following the closure and demolition of the
TWO NECKED SWAN.

Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942

Closed 2004

Future bleak 2005.
Demolished during February / March 2006

Detail from gable end


  In 1961 the BYSTANDERS FILM CLUB commenced a survey of Norwich public houses.
Unfortunately, by 1968 the challenge remained unfinished and Watney Mann had taken over the local breweries....Toilet facilities (Conveniences) were rated on cleanliness and general standard.
This house was rated as follows:-
 
 
S&P No Draught Cider
Darts Conveniences 3 (5 being the best)
Parking  
Like Branford Stores - high ceilings and generally vast - too vast, in fact rather remote.
"N" brass dishes hanging on wall.
Another non-ecclesiastical narthex (we think).
Customers vocabulary limited to "Bloody ..... Bloody ...... and ..........Bloody".
Superb Alsation.
Scrubbed wood block floor.
 

 

  The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
1900 No 8 5 No
Used to have three rooms, smoke room, lounge and bar.
Now one large bar with the old smoke room as the games room.
Dull pub furniture.
Modern 1940's fireplace.
Decorative stonework over corner entrance and decorative brickwork is of architectural note.