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152 BER STREET
ASHBOURNE STREET
St. JOHN SEPULCHRE   CLOSED 30.04.1963
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 - PS 1/8/3 (1867 - 1953)
FREE TRADE  
CHARLES PAUL of Ber Street 1871 & 1873
LEWIS, INGOLD & COLLARD undated
ROCK BREWERY To sale August 1897
BULLARDS by 1924
Licensees :
JOHN THURSBY MORTIMER 09.1857 - 1859
MARY A BUSH *1861
JACOB YOUNGS by 1865
Landlord cautioned Tuesday 29th August 1865 for having house open at unlawful hours for the sale of beer.
HENRY LEIGH 28.03.1876
HUBERT GUYTON 25.07.1876
CHARLES JOSEPH PAUL 27.09.1877
Convicted 21.07.1881 of selling out of hours.
Fine £1 plus 8/- costs.
HARRIET PAUL 14.02.1882
GEORGE JOSEPH RYE 10.10.1882
DANIEL CHARLES EASTER 22.01.1885
GEORGE WARNE junior 10.10.1891
RICHARD WOODSTACK 24.06.1892
JOB KIBBLEWHITE 09.08.1892
ISAAC CLARK 08.08.1893
HARRIET PALMER 13.02.1894
ROBERT DAVISON 13.08.1895
WILLIAM GEORGE 13.10.1908
WILLIAM HERBERT ORFORD 10.05.1910
MARY ANN FRANCES ORFORD 11.02.1915
WILLIAM HERBERT ORFORD 13.05.1919
SIDNEY STOWERS 06.02.1923
ALBERT EDWARD CUBITT 11.03.1930
WALTER BARBER 10.02.1931
Convicted 04.05.1934 of selling out of hours.
Fine £1 or 13 days detention.
WILLIAM EDWARD BARBER 31.12.1935
Convicted 25.10.1938 of selling out of hours.
Fine £1.
Convicted 27.02.1939 of permitting drunkenness.
Fine £2
BENJAMIN FRED BIRD 18.07.1939
WILLIAM HENRY ABBOTT
(and wife Elizabeth)
10.10.1939
RICHARD FORDER 26.08.1941
Convicted 06.01.1943 on 3 cases  of selling out of hours.
Fine £1 on each case.
ERNEST FOX 12.02.1946
ALBERT EDWARD HURRELL 10.05.1955
BERNARD JAMES EDWARDS 19.08.1958



1950


John Mortimer successfully applied for a new licence 1st September 1857.

One of 13 Fully Licensed Public House offered by the Rock Brewery,  for Sale by Auction Tuesday 10th August 1897.
"An Old-fashioned House doing a good and increasing trade."

The suicide of Edward Cubitt was reported in the Eastern Daily Press 03.01.1931. He was 48 years old and had gassed himself during the evening of 31st December 1930. His wife Leah said that they had taken over the house some 10 months previously and after 6 months Edward had become worried about the business. He had previously worked for the Norfolk Dairy Farmers Association for 20 years.

House closed 30.04.1963 and licence not renewed 1964.