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LAUNDITCH HUNDRED BEERHOUSE later
FULL LICENCE
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MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTERS 11.09.1794 and 14.09.1795 & PS 12/5/1 & PS 12/5/2 (1901 to 1975)
REEPHAM BREWERY Conveyed 26 November 1878 from Bircham & Son to Henry Bullard & John Boyce.
BULLARDS Purchased from Bidwells 01.04.1905 by E C Quilter - trading continued as Bidwells.
WATNEY MANN 04.04.1967
CHEF & BREWER November 1974
BRENT WALKER 03.1988
FREEHOUSE Private lease for sale - advertised 27.02.2001 with 22 cover restaurant.
Owners Marcus Seaman & Amelia Nicholson by November 2015
Licensees :
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JOHN ATHOW 1706
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CHARLES MOTT 1794 - 1795
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HENRY MORLEY
& cattle dealer
died 15th June 1840
1836 - 1840
MARIA MORLEY
age 39
1841
WILLIAM ATHOW 1845 - 1846
FRANCIS EKE 1849
ROBERT ENGLEBRIGHT
& carpenter
age 50 in 1851
Died Q1 1882
1851 - 1882
Mrs MARY ANN ENGLEBRIGHT 28.04.1882 - 1883
CLARKE CATOR *1886
JOHN HANSELL 1888
BARNABAS HOWE 1889
MATTHEW DACK 1890 - 1891
JOHN BENSLEY
age 50 in 1891
& farmer
1891 - 1894
SAMUEL DOBSON
& farmer
1896 - 1897
EDWARD OLLEY
age 43 in 1901
*1897 to 1932
JOHN THOMAS OLLEY 08.04.1932
HENRY FREDERICK GRICKS 19.11.1971
ADA GRICKS to 1990
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Brisley Bell - 1985
1985

note : -
Ada Gricks retired at age 90,
she died August 2001 aged 101

c1920
c1920

Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.

Lot No. 43 in sale of Reepham Brewery Saturday 8th June 1878, then let to Robert Englebright at an annual rent of £35.
Described in 1878 as - Fronting the Green, Containing:- Kitchen, Parlour, Pantry, Club Room, Upland Cellar, 5 Bedrooms and Attic; Yard, Detached Wash House & Wheelwrights Shop; Farm Yard with Stable, Barn and Cow House, Stack Yard and Garden; 1 Enclosure of Pasture Land and 3 Enclosures of Arable Land; Also a Cottage with Garden adjoining; The whole site being 6 acres - For Sale Freehold with Valuable Common Right.

The lot was purchased by Bullards.

A beerhouse to 1966, when a Full Licence was obtained.
A bar was then installed for the first time.




Observed to be closed June 2014.

Still closed March 2016, but under new ownership and planned to re-open later in 2016.

Re-opened on the weekend of Saturday 11th February 2017.

The Bell April 2017
April 2017