Licensees :
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EDWARD MOULE	*1849 - *1850
THOMAS CATTERMOLE / CATTERMORE age 57 in 1851	1851 - *1854
Monday 3rd May 1858 - Fine of 5s for allowing persons to assemble and drink at his house before 11:45 on Sunday morning.
JAMES PASTON	1864 - 1865
Monday 20th March 1865 - Fine of 50s, including costs for having house open on Sunday morning. His 6th appearance before the Magistrates for such an offence.
BENJAMIN PASTON	*1869 - *1877
Fine of 10s and costs on Wednesday 12th June 1872 for having house open at illegal hours on the previous Sunday.
HENRY JAY	1879
JOHN HANNEYSEE  (Hannikisee 1881 ?)	1881 - *1883
JOHN BREEZE	**1888
WILLIAM HENN	1890
JAMES FLEXMAN / FLAXMAN	1894 - 1896
ISAAC L COLE	by 1900
ARTHUR ERNEST SEAGO see below	13.10.1905
HENRY GEORGE LEGGETT see below	12.04.1907
THOMAS WILLIAM SCOTT	17.12.1909
SYDNEY JOSEPH PASK	10.01.1913
RICHARD GRAND	24.06.1913

A report in the Norfolk Chronicle of 20th April 1907 gives the transfer in April 1907 as being from Henry Leggett to Arthur Seago. Henry Leggett is confirmed at Isabella Square in 1908.

 

Address as Tower Road, 1858.

One of 13 Fully Licensed Public House offered by the Rock Brewery (Norwich),  for Sale by Auction Tuesday 10th August 1897.

Referenced as a property leased to Bullards but lease not renewed on expiry 24.06.1905.

On Tuesday 4th March 1913 the property was described as a beerhouse, owned by Lacon & Co. It was run by the manageress, who lived there with her husband and two children. She paid no rent, the brewers paying all rates and taxes, also 2½ per cent to the caretakers.
The bar was very small and the three bedrooms very small with low ceilings and very badly lighted. The kitchen was quite dark.
The structural conditions were said to be very bad.
Notice of licence refusal had been issued on the grounds of redundancy, but it was claimed that the house was the worst in the neighbourhood. The house had been selected by the Chief Constable because it was structurally unfit and nobody living there could be healthy. He claimed that he could not have found a worse house in the area.
Trade for the past three years was 101½ barrels and 186 dozen of bottled beer. It had a compensation value of £800.
In 1910 the trade was 114¼ barrels and 194 dozen of bottled beer.
In 1911 it was 188 barrels and 121 dozen bottles
In 1912 it was 81½ barrels and 243 dozen bottles.
The drop in trade in 1912 being one of those inexplicable things, but the summer had been bad and all houses were effected alike.
Referred to compensation.


Licence renewal refused 11th July 1913.
(Licensee Sidney Pask named on application, but from licence registers it seems he had departed in June 1913)

Licence Expired 30th September 1913