| Licensees : |
| ROBERT FOX |
1842 |
JAMES SHIPMAN
age 62 in 1851 |
1845 - 1854 |
| (ROBERT FOX according to Hunt) |
(1850) |
| ELIZABETH MORE |
1856 |
| JOHN THORNTON |
1857 |
| WILLIAM WILKINSON |
1859 - 1865 |
| Accused
24.12.1865 of being open out of hours. |
| JAMES BATLEY |
by 1867 |
| JOHN FRANCIS |
30.09.1868 |
| JOHN CLARKE |
16.04.1869 |
| JAMES CLARKE |
26.07.1870 |
| FREDERICK LEGGETT SCOTTER |
07.02.1871 |
| ELIZABETH SCOTTER |
23.08.1881 |
JOHN EDMUND SMITH
(married Elizabeth Scotter) |
13.04.1882 |
| GEORGE HENRY TAYLOR |
10.10.1889 |
| WILLIAM BELL |
19.12.1899 |
| WALTER BELL |
01.12.1903 |
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Located between the FLOWER POT and the
KEY & CASTLE.
For Sale by Auction, Friday 18th September 1857.
With Yard, Stable, Gig-house and other Out-buildings.
In the occupation of Mr. John Thornton.
At the sessions held 19th August 1862 the licensee was one of many who were
reprimanded for omitting to assist the police, were in the habit of allowing
prostitutes to assemble or conducted themselves in a manner that, although
they had not been summoned or fined, yet were considered by the magistrates
to be improper persons to be entrusted with licenses.
(Mr. Wilkinson had `misconducted' himself when a police-constable was
apprehending a person in his house.)
Frederick Scotter died 15th July 1881 following an accidental fall from a cart, at the
Suffolk Arms.
According to the Norfolk Chronicle of 10th February 1906 the Chief
Constable objected to licence renewal.
Inspector Cooper advised the Bench that the premises were very old and in bad repair. The
internal construction was very inconvenient and unsatisfactory. Some of the rooms were let
furnished and unfurnished. The property was difficult for the police to supervise. There
were 12 licensed houses within 200 yards. The Chief Constable remarked that the occupants
of the let rooms had access to the Public House without going into the street and when the
doors were locked the police were prevented from knowing what was going on inside.
It was further said that the upstairs rooms were in such bad repair as to be dangerous.
Licence provisionally refused 07.02.1906 and referred to Compensation.
Closed under Compensation 15.10.1907
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