Licensees :
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JAMES ROBERTS Age 66 in 1861	1840 - *1865
JOHN CUNNINGHAM & farmer 6.5 acres	*1868 - 1883
24th September 1872 - Fine of £2 with costs of 17s 6d for permitting drunkenness in the house on 13th September.
Mrs ELIZA CUNNINGHAM Age 66 in 1891	*1888 - 1891
GEORGE PAGE See below	1895 - 1907
Tuesday 24th November 1903 - Charged of possessing two unjust earthenware measures. Further charged of having 15 unstamped measures. Believing the offence was committed in ignorance, Page was fined 1s and 10s costs in each case. The unjust measures were to be destroyed.
Farmer, George Page, was fined 5s on Tuesday 25th February 1908 for driving a cart on 16th February, without a light.

Note: In 1840 there appears to be at least three James Roberts living in Hempnall. One of them is named at this house.
In 1861 a James Roberts is located in a beerhouse at Great Green, on the south side of the street.

In The Register of Electors, George Page is recorded as living at Lunda Green from at least 1895 to 1915.
In 1901 he is at Lundy Green and trade given as Innkeeper.

At the Long Stratton Brewster Session held Tuesday 14th February 1906 the decision to renew the licence was deferred to the Session to be held in two weeks time.

At the Brewster Sessions held at Long Stratton on Tuesday 26th February 1906, it was heard that the licence had been objected to at the previous Session. This house was only 533 yards from other licensed premises and was owned by Messrs. Steward & Patteson. There was no complaint against the tenant who had been in occupation for ten years.
The brewers owned another house in the parish, about 1¼ miles away.
Average sales were 60 barrels a year.

The magistrates decided to refer the final decision on the licence to the Quarter Sessions.

Licence not renewed at the Annual Licensing meeting held Tuesday 12th February 1907.
(A similar fate awaited the WOODMAN)

At the sessions held Thursday 21st June 1906 Superintendent Southgate opposed licence renewal partly owing to two windows in the back of the house facing an orchard belonging to somebody else. Mr. Holmes <Licensee or Brewery Rep?> said trade to be 60 barrels a year.
Licence refused.

Closed by Compensation.

Tuesday 6th August 1907 - The Freehold Small Holding, formerly known as the Two Friends public-house, comprising Dwelling-house, with Barn, Stable and Cartshed, Garden and two fields of Arable Land (5a 2r), occupied by Mr. George Page was sold by Steward & Patteson to Mr. R. S. Tweedale of Hempnall for £195.

 

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