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TOWN GREEN
FOREHOE HUNDRED - CLOSED 1912
FOREHOE HUNDRED REGISTERS taken 12thSeptember 1794
BURROUGHES   
CANN & CLARKE by 1824
MORGANS From 11.05.1894 to 1912
Licensees :
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JAMES FOULSHAM 1794
-  
ROBERT HUBBARD 1822 - 1830
JAMES ROLFE 1836 - 1839
JOHN BURCHAM
age 58 in 1851
& butcher
1845 - 1858
SAMUEL GOOCH
& carrier & farmer
1861 - 1877
JESSE BUTTLE
& master bricklayer
1881
EDWARD WILLIAM HOWES 1888
WILLIAM EDWARD HOWES
& groom
1890 - 1895
JOHN DOVE
(as PO directory)
*1896
HENRY DOVE 1896 -  1909
Image courtesy of Dick Barham.
William Howes at the door 1895.

Left by landowner Thomas Randall to his grandsons in 1738, one of several houses in his estate.

A carriers service to Norwich was run by Samuel Gooch
3 times a week.

Advertised To Be Let, February 1861.
Including two good Granaries, stable, good Gig-house and Piggeries.
Apply at the Counting House of Messrs. Cann & Clarke, Wymondham.

In the early 1900's the K-NUTS Boxing Club was housed here.
Run by the Reverend Gilbert H. Bartlett.

At the Licensing Meeting of Tuesday 2nd February 1909 Superintendent Dunn said that the DOVE was 61 yards away from the FEATHERS and *194 yards from the COCK.  He added that the accommodation at the FEATHERS was far superior.
Mr Dove said his trade averaged over two barrels a week and his customers were mainly of the labouring class. He paid £11 a year rent for the house and for 1½ acres of land. His rates were £3 a year.
For Morgans Brewery it was said that
Henry Dove had been at the house for 13 years and had been given Notice to Quit. The brewers would be likely to put in a younger tenant should the licence be renewed. A regular trade averaging 116½ barrels a year was done at the house, which supplied, to some extent, a class that the Feathers did not supply.
The magistrates decided to refer the licence.
(Provisional licence granted)



Licence refused at Compensation Authority meetings of 21st and 23rd June 1909.
Reported as an alehouse, owned by Morgans Brewery Co.  and run by licensee Henry Dove.

At the meeting of the Norfolk Licensing Committee, held Wednesday 15th December 1909, it was reported that figures for trade showed 118 barrels, including bottled beer.
Compensation of £717 14s 6d was awarded with 10% going to the tenant.
After closure the property was used by William Carter for his wood turning business.
(He was one of the last craftsmen to make brushes).

After 1945 the house became a private dwelling.

* Indistinct print and value may be subject to correction.