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WALTER HORACE BROOKE of Hunstanton
BROOKE & BROOKE
Licensees :
WALTER HORACE BROOKE 1936
IPATO ANGELO LEONARD COLISANTI 01.04.1968
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Opened as a public house with restaurant and ballroom c1936 following transfer of the licence of the BUCK at Sedgeford as recommended by the licensing justices on Monday 20th March 1936.

Advertised as the brightest and best pub in North Norfolk
Closed as a Public House / Dance Hall c1975
Sold 1987 and became the Sands Night Club.
Closed 1996
A private club 1998

Destroyed by fire during the night of 04.03.1998

"Once a posh dance hall with sprung floor, now perhaps a blessing that an eyesore has gone" - unattrib.

 

 
Dick Melton, who worked here from 1957 to 1986 advises:-

Mr Horace Brooke built the Kit -Kat in 1933 he could not get a licence so he bought the BUCK at Sedgeford and transferred the licence.
In 1958 Mr. Colisanti, the manager started up a Sunday night dance club with local rock bands this attracted 1,000 people every Sunday night till 1970 when the disco craze took over. After Mr Horace Brooke passed away his two sons, Peter and Colin took over they decided to retire and sold the pub in 1986. It was then closed down for for a while and then reopened as a night club and was called the Sands.

It later changed hands again and was then called O'Rourke's Bar.
Then in 1996 it closed down for good.

In 1998 it was destroyed by fire and it stood there just an empty shell until it was demolished in 2002. The area of land where it stood for over 70 years is just an empty space covered in weeds and rubbish.

January 2019.