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23 NORFOLK STREET PARADISE WARD FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1922
KINGS LYNN PETTY SESSION REGISTERS PS 4/3/1 to PS 4/3/3 (August 1872 to 1956)
EYRES    
MILLER    
BENTLEY    
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MORGANS    
Licensees :
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HENRY HACKNEY 1863
CORDELIA BOOTHBY 1864
JOHN LOADES * 1865
Licence refused 21st August 1867
(Applicant reported as James Powley)
RICHARD POOLEY 26.08.1868
ROSE SMITH to 06.1869
SARAH LEGGETT 29.06.1869
GRANVILLE G PARKER 1871
Monday 15th May 1871 - Granvell Parker paid fine of £1 and 11s 6d for not maintaining good order in the house on 6th May.
See opposite.
Monday 28th August 1871 - Licence renewal refused on the grounds that the landlord was unfit to hold the licence.
THOMAS EDWARD NEW 25.09.1871
Licence forfeited Monday 9th December 1872 "due to conviction under Section 15." Mr. New also to pay a fine of £1 and costs. of £1 6s 4d. ( He had permitted his house to be a brothel and it had been proved that a prostitute lived at the house.)
THOMAS WAGG 06.01.1873
JAMES WILLIAM BULLEN 12.05.1873
JOHN MISSON 14.10.1878
WILLIAM WALKINGHAM 11.08.1879
CHARLES BONNETT 24.11.1879
ALFRED DRAKE 14.04.1890
WILLIAM GRUMMIT DARKIN 07.01.1895
JAMES ALFRED CANHAM 11.11.1895
WILLIAM HALL 18.05.1896
THOMAS FRANK BUTCHER 06.02.1905
HERBERT LEWIS ABBEY 09.10.1911
ROBERT RUST 14.04.1913
ARTHUR WILLIAM GRANGE 05.01.1914
MARY ANN GRANGE 07.10.1918
ARTHUR WILLIAM GRANGE 07.07.1919
MARY ANN GRANGE 21.11.1921

 
In 1858 Henry Hackney is given at the QUEEN VICTORIA, Tower Street.
In the 1863 directory he is named at the NORFOLK ARMS, but in December 1863 he was found guilty of having his house open during prohibited hours. He was then said to be at the HEART OF OAK, beerhouse and owing to the fact that he had been fined a total of £19 4s in fines and costs for previous similar offences, he was further fined £2 and 16s 6d costs.

Before the magistrates on Monday, 15th May 1871, it was stated that "when Mr. Parker took on the house, he brought a prostitute to live in with him who used to keep a brothel in Surrey Street, notwithstanding he had a wife living, and in fact the house was now a perfect brothel."

It was heard that Frances Jason, hawker of Weasenham, a married woman,  had met Robert Raffell, of London, on Wednesday 4th December, at the Black Dog. They then went to the Norfolk Arms where Raffell paid 6d to the landlady for a room. The pair went to bed, but after a short time, Jason suddenly left the room. Raffell went downstairs to order a ginger beer and that is where he discovered 30 shillings were missing. Previously he had paid Jason 2s, and at that time, the 30s was still in his possession. On Monday 9th December 1872, Jason was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment at Wymondham gaol, without hard labour for theft.


  Referred for Compensation 06.03.1922

Licence extinct 21.02.1923