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Black Eagle
5 St. GREGORYS ALLEY
UPPER WESTWICK STREET
St GREGORY FULL LICENCE CLOSED 23.08.1907
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 - PS 1/8/3 (1867 to 1953)
FREE TRADE Supplied by Steward & Co from November 1840 to 1843 and again from November 1845
SEAMAN & Co by 1867
GRIMMER & Co 1873
BULLARDS c1889
Licensees :
   
HENRY MASON 1842
EDWARD SMITH 1845 - 1846
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THOMAS KENT 1854
Mrs SUSANNAH MINNS 29.09.1855
ROBERT TILLYARD ROWE 27.12.1881
WILLIAM TURNER 20.06.1882
FREDERICK HENRY KNIGHTS 10.10.1892
FRANK BALL 16.11.1897
STEPHEN HARRIS 20.03.1900
NORMAN GEORGE SNELLING 09.02.1905
SAMUEL WILLIAM MIDDLETON 29.08.1905


Also found as the EAGLE and as the SPREAD EAGLE.

Stood almost opposite the West end of St. Gregory's Church.

At the 1906 Licensing Sessions, 7th February 1906,  the bench heard that the house consisted of one room for public accommodation, but that the licensee occasionally allowed customers to use his living room.
The police said that the house was small and inconvenient, with the backyard and sanitary accommodation being shared with an adjoining house. There were 23 other licensed houses within 200 yards.
The licence was provisionally refused and referred to Compensation.

 

  The first meeting of the creditors of Samuel William Middleton and his brother, Frederick Charles Middleton, trading as Middleton Brothers, Boot manufacturers, was held Tuesday 20th February 1906. Their business at Calvert Street showed gross liabilities of £798 5s 4d and a deficiency of £616 2s 2d. The failure was caused by "Insufficient work for the newly purchased machinery, the increase in the price of leather and losses in the cutting room".

Samuel Middleton explained that he had entered the Boot business with his brother some five years previously, since they had both been employed in the trade as shoe finishers. He was currently the occupier of the Eagle Tavern, but paid no rent and the brewers paid the licence. Although the licence was in his name, it was held by the brewers. He was practically the manager with no weekly allowance, he simply paid for what he got and had the (very little) difference. He did not pay the rates.
He had been advised by the brewers that since he had not contributed to the compensation fund, he was not entitled to any award made by the Licensing Committee for the closure of the house.
The bankruptcy examination was closed.
 
     



 House closed under Compensation 23rd August 1907.