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Kings Head
42 MAGDALEN STREET St SAVIOUR FULL LICENCE -
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/3 (1867 to 1953)
PATTESON Pockthorpe Brewery 1804
YOUNGS & Co (As Crawshay in 1845)
BULLARDS 1958
WATNEY MANN   
COURAGE Transferred from Watney Mann to Courage 27.01.1972
FREEHOUSE   
Licensees :
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? 1710
THOMAS ELVYN 1712
RICHARD FIDDERN (?) 1718
JOHN STURLEY
Died about January 1790
1760 - 1790
ROBERT CATTERMOUL March 1790
JOHN STURLEY
( the younger? )
1791 - 1798
WILLIAM COLLS 1802 - 1804
DANIEL RAYTON June 1804
SAMUEL COOKE 1807 -  March 1808
Mr W. M. DREWELL 1809 - 1810
F. DAMANT 1811
JOHN HOWSHAM
previously at the CROWN & ANCHOR
02.1813
MARY BURY 1828
SAMUEL KING 1830
JOHN LEEDS 1833
ROBERT CURTIS 1836 - 1839
ROBERT BASEY
& cordwainer
1839 - 1856
WILLIAM CUSHION to 08.1858
JOHN BARKER 23.08.1858
JOHN MIDDLETON
& weaver
by 1859
ROBERT MARSHALL
& fish market
05.11.1867
THOMAS REACH 22.12.1870
WILLIAM LEACH 28.06.1871
EPHRAIM LARGE 28.06.1872
ARTHUR DUNN 19.02.1873
JAMES THOMPSON 29.06.1875
GEORGE RAMSBOTTOM 07.05.1901
CHARLES NIXON 05.04.1904
Convicted 25.02.1916 of keeping open out of hours.
Fine £1 or 13 days detention
MARY ANN NIXON 15.10.1935
WALTER BAILEY KEELER 20.11.1951
CHARLES DOUGLAS SKIPPER 18.11.1952
HORACE SIDNEY HARE 17.11.1953
JOHN GREGORY LAWRENCE 05.04.1957
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PAUL CORNWELL 07.1975 - 1978
PAUL MIDDLETON by 11.1988
COLIN EARTHY &
PAUL MIDDLETON
by 07.1989
GLENYS & PHILIP FOSTER
managers
1996
ROLAND COOMBER & JONATHAN SMITH 05.2005
STEPHEN GEORGE 2013 - 2022+

Kings Head - 1997
1997

19th November 1709 - A shop and room To Let at the Kings Head.
`Inquire of Mr. Barker the Nacker.'

1st April 1710 - A white Mare found. Owner to apply at the Kings Head, Magdalen Street.

The Norfolk Chronicle reported...
Norwich, December 16th 1783.
At a Meeting of the Yarn-makers held here this day, it was unanimously agreed to call a general Meeting of the Trade, residing in the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk, to be held at the KING'S HEAD in Magdalen Street, on Friday the January 2nd next, at Six o'clock in the Evening, in order to consider how far it may be right to act in Conjunction with the County of Suffolk, etc in obtaining a Bill in Parliament for the better Regulation of Yarns.


The house was engaged for Freeholders, the Friends of Sir Edward Astley, Bart. and Thomas William Coke, Esq. on Wednesday 14th April 1784, being the Day of Election. (One of 53 such houses in Norwich)

Offered To be Sold or Let 13th February 1790.
Apply to Mr. Edward Crane, White Lion Lane, Norwich.....
On the same date, all Creditors of the late John Sturley were asked to deliver an account to Mr. Crane.


Robert Cattermoul, late Coachman to Mrs. Branthwaite, advised 3rd March 1790 that he had taken the Inn.
He was a dealer in all kinds of Grass Seed and warranted his stocks to be of the best quality.

Robert Cattermoul of the Kings Head married Mrs. Elizabeth Patter Friday 27th March 1790.

Advertised to be Sold by Auction on Tuesday 23rd November 1790, occupant then Mr. Cattermoul.

The entrance to the courtyard has an emblem
`The Crown Brewery'

Address as 116 Magdalen Street in 1802

Advertised for let 21st April 1804.
Furniture & fixtures could be taken at fair appraisement.
`Apply Brewing-office, Pockthorpe'.

Daniel Rayton announced 2nd June 1804 that he had entered the house and would endeavour to provide the best Wines and choicest Liquors to the Friends of Mr. Colls and the Public in general.
One of 36 Norwich houses opened for the reception of Voters in the interest of Mr. Windham and Mr. Coke on election day, Thursday 13th November 1806.


19th September 1807 - Samuel Cooke advised the public that he had refitted the inn for gentlemen and travellers. He was declared bankrupt as reported March 1808.

The Creditors of Samuel Cook were advised 29th October 1808 that they may receive the composition arising from the sale of his Effects by application to Mr. Marsh at Bank Street.

Mr. Drewell, late butler to J. R. Dashwood Esq. of Cley, informed the public 21st January 1809, that he had taken over the house.

At the licensing session held Monday 23rd August 1858 John Barker obtained a renewal of licence, in place of William Cushion.

Closed 2004.
Extensively renovated to re-open
May 20th 2005
Selling beer from some 14 handpumps and
on gravity. Bottled Belgian beers and NO kegs.

 

  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
17th C Yes 8 3 No
Four carved wooden pilasters between windows and door and plaster carvings in spaces between arches and pilasters of oak leaves and a king's head. (Mediaeval style but un-named.)
High wagon or coach arch at left of frontage is pedimented with a plaster crown in the space.
Front bar unchanged for many years, has half wood panelling, a small 1930's fireplace, bar is parallel with frontage.
Back bar has been extended and loos added. (After 1950) Has less character than the front bar.
Cosy and friendly and a bit unkempt.