Licensees :
See HORSE PACKET.
EDMUND BAMMANT	1830 - 1839
W. C. HAINES	1844
WILLIAM PARMENTER 1850 according to Slater	1844 - 1850
THOMAS PARMENTER age 26 in 1851 (Also as Parminter) & boatbuilder	1850 - 1865
Mrs PARMENTER	Here April 1867
WILLIAM GEORGE PARMENTER & shipwright Age 49 in 1871	1868 - 1871
Tuesday 23rd February 1869 - Fine of 5s for having house open after midnight on the previous Saturday
Wednesday 10th November 1869 - Fine of 10s and costs for having house open after midnight on Saturday 6th November. Also "admonished as to the way the house was conducted". See below
FREDERICK SILVERS BALDRY	1875 - 1877
JOHN CHRISTMAS	1881 - (1886)
WILLIAM BEAMISH LAMB	1886 - 1889
Saturday 23rd March 1889 - Fine of 10s and costs, or fourteen days, for allowing gambling on the premises on 20th March 1889.
On Friday 31st May 1889 - Charged with having house open during prohibited hours on the morning of Sunday 18th May. Fine of 40s and costs, or in default, one month's imprisonment. See opposite.
HERBERT EDWARD PYE	1890
JOHN LONG	1892

On Saturday 13th April 1867, Thomas Brinded was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for assaulting landlady Mrs. Parmenter.

When Mr. Parmenter was before the magistrates in November 1869, the Mayor was reminded that it was customary, on the first day that he attended court following his election, to deal as leniently as possible with all cases. It turned out, that in this case, the Mayor and his colleagues decided to convict.

 
As the SOVEREIGN BOWLING GREEN 1830.
The SOVEREIGN STEAM PACKET & BOWLING GREEN 1836
ROYAL SOVEREIGN BOWLING GREEN 1839
 SOVEREIGN STEAM PACKET 1844
EMPEROR STEAM PACKET 1844
SOVEREIGN STEAM PACKET 1850
RAILWAY BOWLING GREEN 1863

4 Foundry Walk in 1871.

At the hearing on 23rd March 1889, it was said that Mr. William Lamb had been at the Bowling Green for Three Years and Six Months, without any previous convictions.
This would put him at this house from about September 1885.

May 1889 - Police Constables Legood and Mason observed 27 men enter the house, at various intervals, from about a quarter past five in the morning. 16 were seen to leave after a short while and the others may have left by another door. In defence it was claimed that the men were shrimpers who had to pass through the house in order to get to their boats, which were lying at the Quay-head. No drinks had been served and there was no evidence to prove contrary to that.
The Bench considered the case serious and since this was a second offence, Lamb was fined 40s and costs, or one month's imprisonment. A caution was given regarding the future conduct of the house.

In a letter dated 12th March 1890, a Yachtsman suggested, that since the Yarmouth Town Council were considering building a dock, they should purchase the Bowling Green, and should that not provide sufficient land, they could easily acquire land on either side of the river frontage. The Bowling Green could become a hotel and the person living there could superintend the management of the dock. This would allow the river yachtsmen to stay to the benefit of the tradespeople, which would not be the case if they were moored at Breydon.

Not identified after 1900.

 

See HORSE PACKET.