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KINGS HEAD MUNDFORD Index
- GRIMSHOE HUNDRED BEERHOUSE? CLOSED 21.10.1970
GRIMSHOE LICENCE REGISTER PS 14/5/1 (1926 - 1954) & THETFORD LICENCE REGISTER PS 14/5/2 (1921 - 1965)
- House owned by George Taylor of Mundford 1836/7
BIDWELLS Purchased by E C Quilter 1st April 1905 - Continued trading as Bidwells
BULLARDS from take-over of Bidwells 1924
WATNEYS Closed by Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd 1970
Licensees :
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HENRY TAYLOR
(Mrs. Taylor wife of Henry, died January 1801, aged 78)
1789 - 1801
GEORGE TAYLOR to 04.1823
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JAMES CHAMBERS 1830
JOHN CHAMBERS
Died "lately" 2nd October 1841 - age 42
1832 - 1841
JOHN CHAMBERS 1845 - 1846
DANIEL DEATH
age 45 in 1851
1851 - 1868
JOHN GASKEN / GASKIN
& wheelwright
Died suddenly 12th July 1903 - age 69.
29.04.1868 - 1903
GEORGE GASKEN 1904 to 1930
ELIZABETH SUSAN GASKEN 04.02.1930
GEORGE MARTIN 02.07.1947
JAMES HENRY BLAKEY 18.07.1956
ISOBEL GERTRUDE BLAKEY 06.12.1966


(Anybody able to identify the Vehicle?)

The KINGS HEAD - Mundford
c1900

Same house as identified as the KINGS ARMS in Grimshoe Licence Register taken 7th September 1789 ?

All the Household Furniture, Dairy and Brewing Utensils, Livestock and Carts, &c., of George Taylor,  were to be Sold by Auction, Monday, 14th April 1832, under an Execution from the Sheriff of Norfolk.
The Petition of George Taylor was to be heard at the General Quarter Sessions, Guild-hall, Norwich,  Wednesday 16th July 1823, as arranged by the Office of the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors.


Valuation dated 25th July 1889 gives £900

Sales 1961 reported at First Joint Committee Meeting of Bullards and S&P as 141 barrels of beer.
No change was recommended.

Sales 1970 given as 72 barrels of draught ale
and 53 barrels of bottled beer.

Seemingly trading as a beerhouse to closure, with no spirit sales ever mentioned.

 

 

See page 60 of `Thetford Postcards' by D Osborne