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9 PURFLEET STREET CHEQUER WARD FULL LICENCE See PURFLEET TAVERN
   
Licensees :
ROBERT PICKRELL pre 1856 - 1858
Monday 29th December 1856 - Fine of 10s and 17s 6d costs for keeping house house open for the sale of beer before 04:00 am on Friday 26th December.
THOMAS WILLIAM COLE 1859 - 1863
Fined on Monday 5th December 1859 for harbouring prostitutes. See opposite.
WILLIAM HOWARD 1864 - 1869
Tuesday 25th August 1868 - Landlord "severely censured " for allowing house to be used for immoral purposes.
WILLIAM WALKER by 04.1869
Thursday 13th May 1868 - Ordered to find two sureties of £10 and £20 in himself, having been summoned for assaulting his wife and 10th May.
See below
JOHN DOWDY 29.06.1869
SAMUEL ELLIS
beerhouse keeper & labourer
(Named at Purfleet Tavern 1872)		 1871

The 1869 Post Office directory names William Howard at this house and William Walker is given as beer retailer at Windsor Road (Windsor Tavern?).
However a news report of 15th May 1869 names Mr. Walker at the Sailor's Home.
The GOLDEN LION 1846 - 1858.

The PURFLEET TAVERN by 1872

In court Monday 5th December 1859, Mr. Cole was fined 20s and 26s costs for knowingly permitting common prostitutes to assemble and continue in his house contrary to the provisions of the Lynn Waterworks and Borough Improvement Act.
He was labelled a determined wrong-doer on Monday 12th December 1859 when he was again found guilty of two fresh cases and fined 40s with costs of 19s 6d on the first and in the other, £5 and 19s 6d costs.
Other publicans were urged to take note and the magistrates were praised for beginning the cleansing of these `Aujean stables'.