Licensees :
EDWARD BONEY & ships carpenter (also given as Bonny & Bonney) Previously at the FEATHERS (Died Q2 1890 - age 70)	*1863 - 1871
SAMUEL FULCHER	1875 - 1888
CHARLES ARGYLE KING Age 30 in 1891	1890 - 1892
JAMES GUYTON	1896
WILLIAM JAMES CUFLEY / CAFLEY Died Q4 1901 - age 80	1900
ALFRED GEORGE CRISP Went to SUFFOLK HOTEL	by 1901
GEORGE EDWARD HASTINGS Left the house Friday 9th December 1904. (Died Q4 1909 - age 61)	08.07.1904
CHARLES BASE (Basey ?)	13.01.1905
HENRY ROBERT WOODS	18.08.1905
ELLEN WALES Went to OLD COMMODORE 1909	06.07.1906
?	1909 - 1911

It was reported that Edmund Bonny applied for a full licence 28th August 1865 - Application refused. House said to be frequented by seamen and the life-boat's crew.


As at Pier Road 1875
As Suffolk Tavern 1881

On Friday 13th January 1905 the licence was transferred from Mr. Hastings to the new tenant. The new rent was said to be £20 per year. Lacons advised that all their houses were valued at 32% above the rentals.

At the Licence Transfer sessions Friday 18th May 1906, the licence was temporarily transferred to Mrs. Wales. The outgoing tenant said he had been at the house since July 1905 and had been unable to make a living. Mrs Wales hover said that she had been in the business for twenty-four years and under Lacon's for seventeen years. She said that if you don't attend to business you can't get a living.

House possibly closed September 1909 since Ellen Wales is last licensee entered in licence register and in that month she started at the OLD COMMODORE