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ROYAL STANDARD EAST DEREHAM Index
29 BAXTER ROW MITFORD HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED (at this address) c1982
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MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 12/5/1 & PS 12/5/2 (1901 to 1975)
WILLIAM COOPER of East Dereham to at least 1887 (Ownership voter on electoral roll)
LYDIA THOMPSON of East Dereham
BULLARDS 14.02.1921
WATNEY MANN 04.04.1967 
CHEF & BREWER November 1974 : Closed by Watney Mann c1982.
Licensees :
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WILLIAM COOPER
age 42 in 1871
*1865 - 1877
ISAAC JACOBS
age 53 in 1881
1879 - 1894
WILLIAM THOMPSON 26.10.1894 - 1896
ERNEST BULLARD
temporary licence pending new tenant.
28.05.1897
JOHN TOOK 1900
EDWARD WACEY
age 56 in 1901
by 1901
WILLIAM THOMPSON 25.08.1905
WALTER OSBORNE 11.10.1907
JOHN WELLS 03.01.1908
Mrs JANE ELIZABETH WELLS 22.05.1908
FREDERICK PERKINS 23.08.1912
CAROLINE PERKINS 07.07.1916
FREDERICK PERKINS 13.02.1920
JAMES SUTTON by 1929
POLLY MABEL SUTTON 19.08.1960
STANLEY RICHARD PETTITT
(Mrs Margaret Pettit died October 2014 - age 89)
07.02.1969 - 1990
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GEOFF FOSSITT 2008
GRAHAM COOK 2022


The original Inn.

17thC inn.

Seemingly a beer house until full licence granted 26th August 1870.

Following closure early 1982, the name was transferred to what had formerly been the LIGHT HORSE.

Still trading 2002 as the ROYAL STANDARD at 86 BAXTER ROW.
Tel : 01362 854075




ex Light Horse - 1990

The ROYAL STANDARD (11.2001 )

The sign November 2001


  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 Robert Sutton of Wymondham       (CH B3-2-3a)

I knew 'Fiddler' Brown fairly well. I was a teenager of course. He used to play his fiddle in the Royal Standard at Dereham every Friday after he had been to the market, but he was always somewhat inebriated. I think he had a whippet type dog with him. When he had finished performing he put his fiddle in the box and slung it over his shoulder on a piece of rope and then set off for home. He lived in a cottage between Scarning and Shipdham, next to a neighbour who was named 'Brush' Holiday. I know of the dulcimer player. I think he came from Hingham and he visited the Royal Standard every Thursday.'


 

From 'Margaret Pettitt, whose parents ran the pub in the 1920s, she taking it over later, quoted in Alfred Brown, the Life and Times of Shipdham's Other Fiddler, Chris Holderness, Mustrad Article 186       (CH B3-2-18b)

'The Royal Standard was a lively place for music. . . As well as 'Fiddler', dulcimer player Billy Cooper [of Hingham, 1883 - 1964] played there every Thursday, often with a banjo player accompanying him, as well as 'Bogey' Guymer from Dereham who used to play the spoons and knock his elbows on the table to create a rhythm, a traveller known as 'Yorkie', who played military tunes and marches on the piano, another pianist, Mr Brundall, who could only play the black notes, as well as Bert Perkins playing the accordion and Claire Robinson the piano. . . There was a lot of playing for popular songs for singing along with, as well as the occasional bit of step dancing. During the war the pub was particularly busy with air-force personnel using it.'