Licensees :
JOHN PAYNE age 60 in 1841	1836 - 1846
ROBERT LINFORD	1850
Mrs BOWEN	1853
Tuesday 30th August 1853 - Licence renewed, but house to be closed for a while. See opposite.
HENRY BOWEN	1854 ?
Mrs MARY ANN DANIELS (In error for the VINE ?)	1865 - 1868

Listed in the 1845 Magistrates list as well as the Vine Tavern.


Tuesday 30th August 1853 - There were two police reports that the house had been found open to three o'clock in the morning, with five or six prostitutes, besides men, making great noise. Another report stated that on the very morning of the Licensing Session, the house had been open until two-thirty a.m., the company being mostly girls of the town.
The landlady said she did not make money during the day and could not pay the rent and rates if it closed at night.
It was said that the house was the property of Mr. Seaman who had given the tenant notice to quit and was prepared to close the house until such time as the character could be changed.
When one of the magistrates stated that the house was a notorious receptacle for prostitutes, the spokesman for Mr. Seaman said he must have mistaken the house for the DOVE.


See VINE.