| 167 OAK STREET |
St. MARTIN AT OAK |
BEERHOUSE |
CLOSED
24.05.1971 |
| NORWICH
LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/4 (1867 - 1965) |
| St. MARTINS BREWERY |
Advertised for sale 11th October 1794, a
leasehold property, including a Capital Malt House in Fullers Hole, 60 comb steep. |
| The MAYOR, ALDERMAN & CITIZENS of
Norwich |
Leasehold to Steward, Patteson, Finch & Co by
11/1848, having been previously supplied by them as a freehouse. |
| STEWARD & PATTESON |
Owned by Steward & Patteson from 30.05.1951. |
| WATNEY MANN |
1967 |
|
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| Licensees : |
| - |
|
WILLIAM STANGROOM
(RED COW) |
05.1795 |
| - |
|
JOHN CLAXTON
& farmer |
1806 - 1807 |
| SAMUEL
KERSEY |
1810 |
| WILLIAM
HUMPHRIES |
1839 |
| CLARE MIDDLETON |
1842 - 1845 |
CHARLES STUBBS
age 33
& poulterer |
* 1851 |
RICHARD MACKLEY
Dealer in birds |
1853 - 1859 |
| Tuesday 30th August 1853 - License
renewed with a warning, following reports of twice having the house open
after midnight on a Saturday. |
| SAMUEL SMITH |
by 1861 |
| MARY ANN SMITH |
24.06.1890 |
| WILLIAM SMITH |
09.10.1897 |
| JOHN THOMAS WALKER |
06.09.1932 |
| ERNEST ARTHUR PLUNKETT |
08.02.1938 |
| CHARLES STUART DOUGLAS |
11.06.1940 |
| RALPH REGINALD CULLUM |
09.10.1951 |
| WILLIAM GATT |
21.07.1959 |
| WALTER ARTHUR FREDERICK HALL |
29.12.1959 |
| ERNEST ARTHUR PLUNKETT |
08.02.1938 |
| CHARLES STUART DOUGLAS |
11.06.1940 |
| RALPH REGINALD CULLUM |
09.10.1951 |
| WILLIAM GATT |
21.07.1959 |
| WALTER ARTHUR FREDERICK HALL |
29.12.1959 |
|
It was reported 20th June 1795, that William Stangroom, keeper of the
Red Cow, near St. Martin at Oak Gates, had been injured whilst working
in his marl pit.
Referenced as the ORIGINAL DUN COW 1842,
1850 & 1859
William Smith, who was living at the Dun Cow, was charged Tuesday 11th
February 1862 of having savagely assaulted licensee Samuel Smith. Mrs.
Smith appeared before the magistrates since her husband Samuel was too
seriously injured to attend. She advised the Bench that her husband
wished to withdraw the charges. With no option but to dismiss the
prisoner, the Mayor commented that it was the sixteenth time that
William Smith had been before them and looking at the black list of
imprisonments, he thought his character was as bad as it could be.
On Thursday 9th February 1905 the Chief Constable
objected to licence renewal owing to the internal connection to the
green grocer's shop
adjoining. The policeman said that undoubtedly women entered the shop
and and came out of the public house door. Children were sent to the
shop, a place where beer was sold. Constable Sizer had observed
intoxicating liquor being served to a woman at the door communicating
between the shop and the bar.
It was disclosed that the woman served at the doorway was in fact the
landlord's own sister, surely entitled to visit her relatives. Other
shop customers were not allowed access from the shop. Licensee William
Smith had lived in the house for his entire life. If the shop was closed
on a Sunday, what objection could there be?
Since the house was owned by the Corporation, and some of the
magistrates were members of the said body, the case was adjourned.
Licence referred to Compensation 9th March 1905, but the decision was taken
to renew the licence.
At the 1906 Sessions there was an objection to the licence on the grounds that there was
internal access with (an adjoining) shop.
Since the premises were owned by the Norwich Corporation and a majority of the Justices
gathered were connected to that body, the matter was adjourned.
Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942.
Closed by Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd 24.05.1971.
Sales in final year of trading were :-
66 barrels of beer plus
34 (barrels) of bottled beer. |
