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FULL LICENCE by 1860's ?
CLOSED 27.01.1964
SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTER PS 13/4/1 (1949 to 1965)
ELIJAH EYRES as listed 1895
MORGANS to S&P 01.10.1961
STEWARD & PATTESON Last licence granted 05.04.1963
Licensees :
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JOHN WALLER
& cattle dealer 1854
& brewer 1856, 1858 & 1863
* 1854 - 1864
MARTIN RIX
& brewer
1865 - 1872
WILLIAM POTTER 1874 - 1875
ALEXANDER LOVE 1877
THOMAS HENRY INKSON 22.07.1877
JAMES P. CHANDLER
ex Globe, Wells
31.08.1878
THOMAS MILES BLOOMFIELD
(as T M Blomfield at the Victory 
according to White 1883)
& butcher & cattle dealer
1881 - 1883
Fined 9d and 7s 9d costs for allowing his horse to stray on the highway. Offence had taken place on 12th August 1882.
SAMUEL DICKERSON 1885
EDWARD MELTON 1888 - 1892
Monday 29th August 1892 - Fine of £1, including costs, or 14 days detention, for the assault on 6th August on Charles Oughton, "a disabled ex-soldier of seven years' service"
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FRANK WILSON 1896 - 1905
GEORGE JESSE TUNMORE 1908 - 1911
Monday 27th February 1911 - Fine of 10s 6d, inclusive of costs, for an assault on Alfred Neave on 10th February. There had been provocation since Neave had been drunk, refused to leave the house, and had used obscene language.
JOHN R OFIELD 1912
GEORGE ALDERSON
Died 1918
1916 - 1918
ROBERT CHARLES FRANCIS 14.10.1918
GEORGE FRANCIS 1922
CHARLES R FRANCIS 1925 - 1929
JACK GRINT 1933 - 1937
HAROLD BARNES by 1949
GEORGE TERENCE DOBSON 14.10.1957

Image provided by Philip West - many thanks
c1910

The transfer of licence to Mr. Potter was celebrated on Tuesday 27th October 1874. Seventeen people sat down to table. After the repast, a very pleasant and merry evening was spent. Toasts and songs went round merrily until ten o'clock. The dinner was excellent and the health of the host and hostess was warmly drunk.

Mistakenly given as VICTORY 1883

Trade in March 1905 given as 55 barrels of beer and 48 gallons of spirits, per annum.

Advertised To Let, April 1914.
Apply Morgans Brewery Co. Ltd., Kings Lynn.

Morgans sales 1960 were :-
Barrels of beer 52
Spirits 32 (gallons)

Closure agreed at First Joint Committee Meeting 29th May 1962