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RAILWAY STATION HOTEL DOWNHAM MARKET Index
75 RAILWAY ROAD CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED FULL LICENCE -
CLACKCLOSE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 7/4/1 & PS 7/4/2 (1917 - 1949)
Exors of HARRY WAYMAN of Downham Market
MORGANS from 02.02.1931
STEWARD & PATTESON from 1961.
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Licensees :
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GEORGE MORTEN
Age 34 in 1851
(Railway Hotel)
1846 - 1851
JESSE CACKETT
See below
1854 - 1865
JONATHAN HEWING 1868 - 1911
Mrs CLARINDA HEWING 26.06.1911
ARTHUR BACK 26.07.1920
ALFRED ERNEST WEBB 09.01.1922
HARRY YOUNGS WINTER 15.07.1929
ABRAHAM COOK 03.03.1930
HARRY YOUNGS WINTER 07.02.1932
BERTRAM MARSLAND 10.04.1933
HERBERT GEORGE BUTTER 25.09.1933
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER JENNINGS 01.07.1935
CHARLES CAMERON YOUNG 08.01.1945
Mr. MURTON YARHAM
proprietor
here 04.1955
ARTHUR ALBERT BLYTH to 03.1958
GEORGE HERBERT DODMAN
(Died 25th November 1972)
24.03.1958 - 10.1962
WALTER CHARLES BASHAM  10.1962 - 04.1964+
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ALAN BLACKMUIR
wife Martha
Went to WHITE HART
05.1970 - 06.1984


Although given in most trade directories as Jesse Crackett, it is confirmed that the 1861 census and Craven's 1856 directory correctly identify the name Cackett.
(Jesse Cackett, born 1825 in Puckley, Kent. Died 1890 running College Farm, Thompson, Norfolk.)

c1930

Seems to have been generally known as the RAILWAY HOTEL to c1927 and then the STATION HOTEL thereafter.

Advertised To Let, February 1958.
Apply Morgans Brewery & Co, Kings Lynn.

Morgans sales 1960 were 108 barrels of beer and 82 (gallons of ) spirits

Advertised To Let, July 1962 - Apply Steward & Patteson, 10 King Street, Kings Lynn.

It was reported 22nd June 1984, that with the landlord, Alan Blackmuir leaving, the Station Hotel would be closed.

In August 1984, the Station Hotel was being converted into four self-contained, single bedroom, flats.  For sale leasehold, two of the flats would be at £16,000 and two at £18,000.
About the planning application, made September 1984, it was said that the property was included in the list of buildings of Special Architectural or Historic interest prepared under the Town and Country Planning Act 1971. The application was for change of use of front of building and demolition of rear extension and outbuildings.

An application made June 1985 was to convert to six dwellings (Including demolition works) at the former Station Hotel.

It was reported January 1987 that two semi-detached cottages had been made available as the latest phase of the former Station Hotel, Railway Road.

Note:- Address given as Bridge Road in 1854, 1858, 1863 and 1864, but as Bridge Street in 1856. In 1868 the address is still Bridge Road, but in 1869 it becomes Railway Road.
Did business relocate from Bridge Road to Railway Road in about 1868?

See STATION INN.