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Queens Head
16 HOWARD STREET NORTH
Row 29 - 32
St. NICHOLAS WARD FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1940
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 - Y/CJ/32 (February 1903 - February 1953)
LACON & Co  
Licensees :
WILLIAM HUMPHRIES
see opposite.
to 1818
..... SKOYLES 1819
ANTHONY MORGAN 1824 - 1830
JOHN WILLIAM RINGER 1836
CHARLES BULLEN
See opposite.
1837 - 1848
SARAH BULLEN
age 43 in 1851
1850 - 1856
CHARLES IVES GARWOOD 1858 - 1869
Fine of 5s for having house open on Christmas Day and Sunday 26th December 1858 at illegal hours.
See FREE TRADE
JOHN POPE 1871 - 1875
Mrs. ELLEN POPE 1875 - 1883
Monday 29th April 1878 - Accused for a second time of allowing the house to be a habitual resort of prostitutes. (First case dismissed). Having distributed cards about the house saying persons must not stay in the house longer than necessary to have refreshment, and the actions of the barman to clear the house, a fine of 1s and costs.
Thursday 22nd August 1878 - Hearing that all possible had been done to keep the house in a proper manner and with notices on the bar cautioning prostitutes against remaining too long, there was no objection to licence renewal.
Mr. WESTON here 06.1883
JOSEPH STEEL 1888 - 1890
THOMPSON SWAN 1892
JOHN CHARLES MERRYWEATHER 1896
CHARLES JOSEPH PUNCHARD
Drowned in Fritton Lake, Tuesday 8th May 1906. "Accidental death".
by 10.1897
Wednesday 11th October 1899 - Fine of 40s and costs of 10s for permitting quarrelsome and riotous conduct.
(In defence it was said that "Everyone knew what Howard Street was, it was not like the front, the Prince of Wales did not come and stop there".)
HELEN HARRIET PUNCHARD 06.07.1906
MINNIE FOXHALL 28.09.1917
FREDERICK LOCKWOOD JARVIS 06.04.1920
CLARA MAUD JARVIS 17.12.1935
SIDNEY WILLIAM BUCKLE 02.07.1940
HARRY BURGESS 12.12.1944

Mr. James Humphrey died September 1818, aged 54.


Also referenced as the OLD QUEENS HEAD and as the
QUEENS HEAD TAVERN.

Offered For Sale by Auction on Tuesday 22nd September 1818, late in occupation of William Humphrey, deceased.
Mr. James Humphrey of the Queen's Head reported to have died Sunday 13th? September 1818, aged 54.


Offered for Sale by Auction 20th August 1819,
at the BLACK LION, Queen Street.
`The accustomed Porter & Liquor Shop called the QUEENS HEAD, Charlotte Street, then in the occupation of William Humphries, to the time of his death, then by Skoyles.'

On Saturday 21st October 1848, a woman called Bensley called at the Queen's Head selling her home-made ketchup. Landlord Charles Bullen, having paid for same, without any provocation, struck her violently across her face with a glass bottle, which broke and cut her very much.
By the following Saturday, Bullen had been removed to the Loddon Lunatic Asylum. He had been attacked with delirium tremens before.

John Pope declined to press charges against a militiaman named Darius Money,12th April 1871. The accused had been accused of being disorderly and of drawing his bayonet against Mrs. Pope.

Address as 15 Charlotte Street in 1875

Closed for the duration of WWII according to a letter dated 26.07.1940.

Licence removed to the BRICKLAYERS ARMS, Nelson Road Central, 06.02.1953

See p. 88 of `Gt. Yarmouth In Old Photographs' pub. 1994