Licensees :
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ELIZABETH WALKER	1791 - 1795
SAMUEL BIDWELL (Owner ?)	1812
JOHN WALKER	1822
ROBERT FOX	1830 - 1836
THOMAS HAWKINS	1839
THOMAS GRUNDY Age 35	1841
THOMAS GATH age 72 in 1851	1845 - 1854
ROBERT MURREY Robert Murray 1858	1856 - 1862
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CHARLES SARSBY	1868 - 1883
WILLIAM LANE	1888
THOMAS FOSTER	1890
JOHN KIRK & carpenter	1891 - 1892
JAMES SKINNER	1896 - 1900
WILLIAM GEORGE JOHNSON	1902
JOSEPH FREDERICK BULLEN	by 1903
ARTHUR CHARLES RIX	01.05.1905
FREDERICK JAMES POWELL	06.11.1905
Monday 7th October 1907 - Charged of being drunk on licensed premises on 15th September and of using foul language on the highway the same day. "There seems to have been a family quarrel and Mr. Powell being undoubtedly of a rather excitable nature". Fine of 10s and 13s costs on the first charge and 5s and 4s costs on the second charge.
ARTHUR THOMAS CROSS	03.05.1909
ELEANOR CROSS	by 1916
Fine of £2/4/- imposed 04.02.1935 for selling whisky adulterated with water.
WILLIAM HENRY GEORGE SHEPHARD	07.07.1941
ALICE MARY SHEPHARD	05.02.1945
FRANK LLEWELLYN WOODARD MOORE	04.01.1947
FLORENCE HILDA MOORE	06.03.1961
HUGH THOMAS COOKE	07.02.1966
DUDLEY A. GRIMBLE (Brewery representative)	01.06.1970

Identified as the EIGHT RINGERS in January 1785.

Given as the RINGERS in 1789 but as the
SIX RINGERS in 1791 & 1795.

To Let with entry Lady Day 1841.
The RINGERS - apply to Mr. Bidwell's Brewery, East Dereham.

Described in 1890 as including a Porter Room.

Steward & Patteson business report, prepared May 1969 for Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd recommended immediate closure.
"Poor trade. A short walking distance from the Bowling Green.
Often closed at lunchtimes and the lounge used as a store."

Ceased trading May 1970.
Licence not renewed February 1971.

	Thomas Gardiner, Bell-founder, fitted a Peal of Six Bells in the Parish in September 1746. In September 1749 he added two Trebles to the Peal. Thanks to Mike Welland for the history of the peal.