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MILL ROAD DEPWADE HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED
HENSTEAD & DEPWADE REGISTERS taken September 1789 & 1790
STEWARD & PATTESON Copyhold property owned by Finch & Steward as listed 1837/1851
WATNEY MANN  
BRENT WALKER  
PUBMASTER  
PUNCH TAVERNS to closure 2008
Licensees :
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ROBERT SMITH 1789 - 1790
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HENRY LEGOOD 1836
HENRY LEGGATT 1839
JOHN ROBERTS
Age 28 in 1841
*1841 - 1846
FRANCES ROBERTS
Age 36 in 1851
(Has two sons in 1851, one named Wormall Roberts, age 2. No husband mentioned.)
1850 - *1851
WARMOLL THROWER 1854 - 1856
JOHN CULLINGFORD 1858
THOMAS PALMER
Age 37
1861 - 1863
Fine of 10s and 16s costs for an assault on Daniel Marjaram of Hardwick on 23rd September 1863.
CHARLES PEARCE 1863
THOMAS PALMER
& carpenter
1864 - 1869
JOHN MATTHEWS
Age 40 in 1871
1871 - 1890
JOHN HINCHLEY
Age 32
1891
JOHN HICKLING 1892
PETER GEORGE VARLEY 1896 - 1900
MICHAEL BIRCHAM 1901
HARRY BURDETT
Died December 1925 - age 53
by 1904 - 1925
Tuesday 26th September 1905 - Fine of £1 and costs for allowing beer to be drunk on his premises during prohibited hours. Although the occasion was a private wedding party, the magistrates considered the law had been broken. Of the guests, 16 were each fined 1s, as were Charlotte and George Aldis, the bride and groom.
Convicted pre February 1906 of keeping open during prohibited hours. See below
Mrs FLORENCE BURDETT 1925 - 1950
Fine of £1 on Tuesday 28th February 1950 for selling out of hours. See below.
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Mr. & Mrs. RONALD APPLETON by 06.1973
REX DALEY 1975
Tuesday 1st April 1975 - Fine of £10 on each of two charges of aiding and abetting the drinking of intoxicating liquor on 24th January at 11:45 pm.
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WES HAGAN 1984 - 1989
MARK BURNS 05.2007 - 02.2008

Hempnall - May 1999
May 1999

Hempnall - May 1999
1999


Closed 2008 and sold by Punch Taverns.
 
At the County Sessions Thursday 4th January 1844 :-

Francis Alexander was charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of John Roberts, of the Queen's Head public-house. On the Fair night, 11th November, at about 11 0'clock, the prisoner, with others came into the house and asked for a pot of porter, for which he tendered a sovereign. Mr Roberts alleged that he put down the sovereign on a side board in the bar and that he counted out 19s 6d which he laid near the sovereign. The prisoner was said to have swept both the sovereign and silver into his purse. When he missed the sovereign, he asked the prisoner to show his silver, which he refused to do. A policeman was sent for, who searched him, and found exactly one sovereign and 19s and 6d. He was then taken into custody.
Alexander claimed that he had received payment earlier in the day of £2/14/1 and had only spent the odd silver at the fair.
After a trial of nearly three hours, the Jury returned a verdict of Not guilty.
The Chairman ordered the 19s 6d to be returned to Alexander but the sovereign to Roberts.
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On Tuesday 9th October 1866, Martha Elvin a dirty, dissipated-looking young woman of about twenty years old was charged by landlady Sarah Palmer of being drunk and refusing to quit the house. Ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling 14s, the money not forthcoming, she was committed to the Wymondham Bridewell for fourteen days' hard labour.

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At the Long Stratton Brewster Session held Tuesday 14th February 1906 it was heard that the tenant had been convicted of selling out of hours - but this was seemingly the only misdemeanour in the area.
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Trade for 1906 given as 70 barrels of beer and 23 gallons of spirits.
In 1907 it was 115 barrels of beer and 44 gallons of spirits.

Licence renewal deferred Tuesday 9th February 1909, to be considered on 23rd February.
On Tuesday 23rd February it was heard that trade for 1908 had been 143 barrels of beer and 42 gallons of spirits. Trade had doubled in three years. The customers of the house were mainly of the working class

On Monday 26th June 1909 the licence was renewed.

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76 year old Florence Burdett was fined £1 on Tuesday 28th February 1950 for selling liquor out of permitted hours. Mrs. Florence Hollis of the same address was fined £2 for aiding and abetting consumption and Robert Hazell, labourer, £1 for consuming.
It was heard that Mrs. Burdett had been at the house for 47 years and held the licence since her husband died 25 years previously.
This was the first time she had been in trouble.