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In court on Monday 12th December 1864, Barker Crisp was charged with having his house open at illegal hours on Sunday 4th December. Mr. Crisp did not attend court claiming illness, the Police Superintendent said that Crisp was invariably indisposed when summoned before the Bench. A constable had found about a dozen men smoking and drinking in the house at about eleven o'clock in the morning. It was claimed that the persons were `travellers' and from a recent case in London, where the Lord Chief Justice ruled that any man who left his home by railway, to any locality, thus became a bona-fide traveller and was entitled to refreshment. Those found in the house were said to be fishermen on their way from Yarmouth to Ormesby, Filby and other adjacent villages and had naturally stopped on their journey homewards. The constable could not say if the men were fishermen or residents. The Superintendent affirmed that Crisp `bid defiance to the law' and every Sunday there were scores of people assembled there at prohibited hours. It was even said that a look-out was employed to warn of approaching policemen. The Chairman, although not agreeing with the superior court, felt bound to follow the higher ruling. The case was dismissed with the Chairman remarking that there was not a public-house in the town that did not violate the law. ~ North Road in 1861 Caister Road in 1869 and in 1871 census where retired farmer Barker Crisp is resident at this house, late ALMA On Monday 24th August 1871 an application for a licence was refused. It was heard that that the house had been licensed for some years, but in consequence of the disorderly way that the house had been conducted, the licence had been withdrawn. |
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