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SHARRINGTON ROAD HOLT HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1957
HOLT LICENCE REGISTERS 17th September 1789 & September 1794 and PS 28/6/1 to PS 28/12/1 (1878 to c1962)
LETHERINGSETT BREWERY W H COZENS HARDY : 1781 - 1896
MORGANS from 1896
Licensees :
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THOMAS RAM
(Angel)
1781
STEPHEN HOWLETT
(Angel)
here 17.09.1789 - 1792
ANN HOWLETT c1792 - 1795
Ө THOMAS CLAXTON 1795 - 1804
ROBERT HARROLD 1836 - 1846
JOHN RAMM
(age 65 in 1851)
1851 - 1863
HENRY PORTER
1865 - 1868
Fine of 1s and 4s 6d costs October 1867 - See opposite
Licence refused 29th August 1868 for allowing improper conduct in his house.
BENJAMIN PEARCE 1869 - 1877
CELIA GUTTERIDGE 1878
RICHARD LAKE 08.03.1879
MARIA LAKE 12.12.1898
JOHN WORSHIP 16.10.1899 - 1904
GEORGE KEELER by 1908
WILLIAM JARVIS 27.09.1910
ARTHUR SLATER
(Arthur SALTER in 1912 Kelly's)
undated
GEORGE GRAY
previously in Morston
18.08.1913
AGNES SOPHIA GRAY 22.10.1917
Fine £5 for selling out of hours 26.03.1920
FREDERICK DRAPER 24.09.1920
EDITH MAY DRAPER
(Elizabeth Draper in 1922 Kellys)
25.11.1921
JOHN EDWIN GRIFFITHS 10.02.1928
STEPHEN WRIGHT 07.06.1929
ADELINE WRIGHT 07.08.1942

 

Surviving house said to have been built in the 1850's.

Named after an enormous oak tree that stood in the village for centuries, until 1860 when it was felled

Lot No. 5 in sale of Estate of the late Henry Hagon, Wednesday 4th July 1781. Then in occupation of Thomas Ram at an annual rent of £4 16s.

The house appears in directories as : -

ANGEL & OAK (1836) then variously;
ANGEL or OAK or OAK & ANGEL to 1881 when
BALE OAK becomes prevalent.
OAK INN 1933

At Holt Pretty Sessions on Saturday 27th October 1867 Henry Porter was charged by police-constable Rust of allowing his pony to stray. Fine of 1s and 4s 6d costs.
William Porter, fish dealer, suffered the same fate.

Conveyed from Clement Cozens-Hardy to Morgans 12th March 1896

Licence removed to LONDON TAVERN, Coltishall.
Removal confirmed 01.05.1957

Became a private dwelling.

Whilst builders were working on the property in December 2015, two female skeletons were discovered under a concrete floor. The remains were deemed to be ancient and possibly associated with a chapel that may have once stood on the site.

 

  Memories collected by Chris Holderness of Rig-a-Jig-Jig for the East Anglian Traditional Musical Trust.
The CH numbers refer to Chris's Archive on eatmt.org.
 
 
From Freda Frost of Massingham, 2005 (CH B5-1-4b)

Freda Frost (néé Parker) lived in Bale for twenty years and well remembers music in The Oak, in the mid 1930s, when she was in her twenties. She actually lived next to Horace Brighty, who played accordion in the pub.
She particularly remembers 'one old gentleman' with a beard, called Billy Ramm, who played accordion and did a 'tap dance' at the same time. [This could be step dancing.] She also recalls that a music hall group would come to the village hall and that they used to lodge with her grandmother.
 


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