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5 SILVER ROAD POCKTHORPE FULL LICENCE -
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/2  (21 August 1894 - 1925)
FOYSON (St. George's Brewery) to 1833
CRAWSHAY as listed 1845 & given 17th March 1888 (as property of Charles Crawshay)
YOUNGS, CRAWSHAY & YOUNGS Conveyed by Y,C&Y Partnership to Y,C&Y Company for completion 01.02,1898
BULLARDS 1958
WATNEY MANN    
NORWICH BREWERY    
FREEHOUSE     
MAULDONS of Suffolk - from October 2009
GRAIN BREWERY of Alburgh by 2015
Licensees :
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GEORGE MATTHEWS 1830 - 1836
THOMAS NELSON 1839
THOMAS NELSON junior 1840 - *1850
EDWARD WATERTON
tailor. (age 23 in 1851)
1861 census names house as LION		 *1850 - 1881
Fine of 1s and 11s 6d costs on Thursday 13th October 1853 (Either for allowing drunkenness or for selling out of hours)
Fined 5s with 11s costs for having deficient beer measures in possession - Saturday 24th August 1861
ROBERT HENRY STUBBS 10.10.1881
SAMUEL TILNEY 27.06.1893
JOHN BIDWELL 21.11.1893
GEORGE BIDWELL 10.10.1901
WALTER MOORE 13.10.1903
BENJAMIN CHARLES GARDINER 08.09.1931
GEORGE CLAPHAM 10.10.1939
DONALD FREDERICK HALE 30.12.1941
JAMES COOPER 01.11.1952
SAMUEL WARMINGER 08.02.1955
ERNEST EDWARD BLAXTER 06.05.1958
HERBERT WILLIAM GLASHEEN 29.08.1961
JOHN MICHAEL HAIG 24.07.1962
CECIL WILLIAM FRENCH 02.06.1970
DOUGLAS DAVID LUNSDAINE 11.09.1984
JOHN MICHAEL HILLYER 22.11.1988
JOHN CHARLES HENRY TURNER 04.04.1989
RICHARD JAMES MOORE 09.07.1991
SHARON JUNE BAKER &
MAUREEN ANN SMITH		 17.12.1991
ANTHONY JOHN KNIGHTS,
VIVIENNE ELIZABETH KNIGHTS &
KEITH WILLIAM POINTER		 06.07.1993
RODNEY JAMES BROOME &
GARY CORNWELL		 21.12.1993
SHERRYL & JOHN S TILSON 26.04.1994 - 01.2008
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CHRISSY & KEVIN STONE October 2008
SALLY MANN December 2009 - 2012+
HOLLY TOWERS
manager		 by 2015


December 1987

Part of the estate of brewer Thomas Foyson, who died prior to March 1832. House to be sold by auction Tuesday 24th September 1833 Lot No 7 of 8.

The licensee of this house was one of seven who were fined during early October 1853, for allowing drunkenness in their house or for selling at improper hours. The editorial commenting on the enforcement of law thought it would have been better if the clamp-down had commenced with the landlords of houses of a higher class.

 

Closed between October and December 2009 for a reported £40,000 refit by new owners Mauldon's Brewery of Suffolk.

Closed end of February 2015 to reopen May 2015 under the new ownership of the Grain Brewery.


  In 1961 the BYSTANDERS FILM CLUB commenced a survey of Norwich public houses.
Unfortunately, by 1968 the challenge remained unfinished and Watney Mann had taken over the local breweries....Toilet facilities (Conveniences) were rated on cleanliness and general standard.
This house was rated as follows:-		  
 
Bullards No Draught Cider
Darts? Conveniences 3 (5 being the best)
  Canned Music
Salt glazed brick exterior, ghastly mid 30's sign.
Green for Kids.
Cold and vacant atmosphere though quite full - why?
 

 

  The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
Mid 1920's <?> No 7 5 Yes
Main structure :- Mid Victorian on a late Victorian base. <?>
Used to have two entrance doors but one has been blocked.
Used to be three rooms - now all in one with games area at back.
Mock Jacobean windows on the ground floor.
Three inset small bays on the first floor.
Unremarkable 1930's/40's tiled corner fireplace surround.
General character of interior - Reds and creams.
- Modern bar fittings.