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CLACKCLOSE REGISTER taken 1st September 1794 & CLACKCLOSE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 7/4/1 to PS 7/4/3 (1917 - 1949)
SETCH    C P HERBERT in 1811
  HOGGE & SEPPINGS
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN  
Licensees :
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JOHN DREW
(Black Bull)
1794
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ROBERT RAMPLING 1811
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HENRY PLUMB 1830 - 1836
JOHN BROWN 1839
WILLIAM BROWN
age 60 in 1851
1845 - 1856
Miss CATHERINE BROWN
Age 34 in 1861
In 1861 co-partner is ELIZABETH JEARY, age 63
1858 - 1865
HENRY TRUNDLE 1869
EDGAR JOHNSON *1871 - *1875
GEORGE OWEN *1879 - 1883
ALFRED WILLIAMSON 1883 - 1886
Mrs SARAH WILLIAMSON
Age 30 in 1891
1888 - 1892
JOHN STEVENS 1896 - 1904
GEORGE W LEGGETT 1908
WALTER WILLIAM LEGGETT 1912 to 1930
FRED FORD 29.09.1930
GORDON THAINE 31.01.1949
GEOFFERY ARTHUR DAVIS 09.10.1958
.... COTTERELL c1960
..... STRATTON ?
...... JARVIS ?
"Closed for several months to August 1966"
BILL & KAY TINDALL
(William F. Tindle as 1966 report))
08.1966 - 1968
...... DOY c1970
RON PHILLIPS here 09.1973
SYLVIA & ALAN ..... here 04.1980
JURGEN SCHUELLER 11.06.1981 to 06.1982
ROGER JAMES EADE
Protection order granted January 1983
10.03.1983

The BULL c1920
The BULL - c1920 - Still showing Setch Brewery

The Bull following rebuilding.
The BULL by 1960

On Wednesday 14th October 1801, Part of the neat and well kept Household Furniture, Brewing Utensils, Stock of most excellent foreign spirituous Liquors and other Effects if the Inn were to be Sold by Auction. The house was to be discontinued as an Inn after the sale.
Items included barrels, casks, a fine cow, a heifer, in calf, a remarkable 4 year old  black Hobby that would turn a hare; about 100 gallons of fine old Jamaica Rum, 60 gallons of the best Cognac Brandy, 60 gallons of excellent Hollands Geneva, 5 gallons of British Gin and 7 gallons of Rum Shrub..........

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The Bury & Norwich Post of Wednesday 18th December 1811 carried the announcement that the premises were to be let from 6th January 1812.
The premises included cottage, or tap-room adjoining; stables, yard, garden, and two inclosures of rich pasture land, containing about 7 Acres - All then in the occupation of Robert Rampling.
24 acres of pasture land could also available to the tenant.
`Exclusive of good road business, the premises command and enjoy the full trade of the weekly corn market, held at Stoke Ferry; also of the merchant's yard opposite, and navigation on the river Wessy, <sic> to Lynn and other places; are well worth the attention of some steady person, and particularly of a butcher, for whom it would be a most desirable situation.'

Listed under beerhouses in 1879.

The house was destroyed by fire 1930.

The premises were then owned by Messrs. C P Herbert & Co, Setch Brewery.


CW 001 CW006
c1968 images thanks to Colleen Wheeler in New Zealand.
Behind the bar are Kay Tindall and Shirley Thompson. Bill Tindall stands at the bar.
Note that the only draught ale on sale is Bullard's Mild.