NORFOLK PUBLIC HOUSES norfolkpubs.co.uk
NORFOLK NORWICH GT. YARMOUTH KINGS LYNN NAME SEARCH PUBLICATIONS LINKS MYSTERY HOME
FISHERMAN'S ARMS Gt. YARMOUTH F index
Fishermans Arms
11 NORTH HOWARD STREET
 CHARLOTTE STREET		 ST NICHOLAS WARD BEERHOUSE CLOSED
FREE TRADE  
LACON From 1894
Licensees :
JONAS MARGETSON *1858 - 1863
(Full) licence application refused Monday 27th August 1860, as were all the other applications from 24 beerhouses in Yarmouth and Gorleston.
JAMES MORL
(Said to be at Cambridge Tavern 1866 when having attempted suicide)		 *1864  - *1869
WILLIAM WILSON 1871
Mrs C WILSON *1875
WILLIAM R WILSON 1877 - 1881
Saturday 3rd November 1877 - Fine of 20s and costs for having house open at 10:50 pm on Sunday 28th October.
Saturday 4th June 1881 - Bound over to keep the peace having been accused by his wife of ill-treatment. Mr. Wilson had ejected from the house after she had sold some of the furniture.
RICHARD WILSON 1882 - *1888
Wednesday 27th June 1883 - Richard Wilson summoned for having house open at 8:00 am on the Sunday morning.
Fine of 40s and costs, or one month's imprisonment.
Customers William Hawes and Peter Plumber were each charged of being on licensed premises at illegal hours.
Hawes was fined 5s and costs, or 7 days' imprisonment. Plummer was fined 10s and costs or 14 days' imprisonment, his greater penalty since he originally gave his name as Wright.
WILLIAM THOMAS 1891
Friday 11th December 1891 - Fine of 40s or one month for, on the previous Tuesday, permitting drunkenness. Six men and a woman had been observed to leave the house intoxicated. The woman had been in the house for nearly two hours!
THOMAS R FREESTONE by May 1894


Formerly the BEEHIVE.

On the night of Monday 3rd August 1885, Richard Wilson, landlord of the Fisherman's Arms, rescued a little boy of three or four years old, who had been hanging from the waterspout near one of the windows of Mrs. Cotton's house. Another child was on the window sill. "Wilson deserved great credit for his pluck and activity in taking the two children to safety".

  Freehold Beerhouse - Offered for sale by auction by Maddison, Miles & Maddison at the STAR HOTEL on Thursday 26th May 1892.
With a frontage of 20 feet to North Howard Street and abutting Row No. 26.

Bidding reached £165 but the lot was withdrawn.
See below.		  


Purchased June 1894 by Messrs. Lacon & Co.

On Tuesday 21st August 1894, an application was made for the removal of the spirit licence from the WEAVER'S ARMS to the MALAKOFF TAVERN.
In return, two licenses, the WEAVER'S ARMS and the FISHERMAN'S ARMS, both owned by Messrs. Lacon would be allowed to lapse.
There was no opposition to the proposal.

Site became a confectioners by 1910.

  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 
  November 1878 - Upon the complaint of landlord William Wilson, prostitute Emma Robinson was fined 5s and costs, and ordered to pay 2s for damaging two panes of glass.
  
     
  On Monday 21st April 1884, Jane Watson, a married woman, was fined 2s 6d and costs having been found guilty of assaulting the landlord, William Wilson.  
     
  On the night of Monday 3rd August 1885, shortly before 11:00 pm., Richard Wilson, landlord of the Fisherman's Arms, scaled the wall of the house of Mrs. Cotton and rescued a little boy of three or four years old, who was hanging from the waterspout near one of the top windows. Another child was at the window sill and would have fallen too, had Mr. Wilson not sized the children and taken them to safety. The parents were out and it was supposed that the child had sleep-walked out of the window.  
 
 
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~		  
 

The solicitors to Charles Richard Shawl Nixon informed him in 1892 they had attempted to sell by private contract and then by auction..........

An undated note states that offers should be made to Morgans, Bullards, Cann & Co and Steward & Patteson.

On 30th November 1891 Lacons had been approached, but they had declined interest since they already had a house nearby.
Lacons suggested that Steward, Patteson, Finch & Co. should be approached since.............
"They have for years been buying every house they can get their hands on".

Bullards advised 5th December 1891 that they would inspect the premises Monday or Tuesday next and be in contact.

Cann & Co offered interest, Steward & Patteson were willing to see the house, Bullards had offered £350.

Cann & Co declined interest 9th December 1891 and the owner (Mr. Nixon) was then advised that the tenant must be offered a further 3 months occupation since the house could not be offered to Steward & Patteson when empty.
(William Thomas Tent was paying £20 per year and had been given notice to quit on and by 25th December 1891).

Mr. Nixon advised 09.12.1891 that the Bullards offer had been declined and "strangely Morgans had not made any contact''.
He further stated that the house should be offered to Steward & Patteson since the house already sold their stout, "and since Allsops already had a house 10 minutes walk down the road, they may be interested in the house".

Mr. Coleman of Norwich expressed interest in the house (not as a Public House ?).

An approach made to Youngs & Co. was declined.

Steward & Patteson were approached again.

Mr. Nixon advised his solicitors 4th February 1892 that the tenant had left at the Christmas Quarter having been fined £2 for "Being found in a house full of men, some the worse for drink." The replacement tenant had not arrived...."Having been taken bad with the feaver''.

Steward & Patteson advised by letter dated 13th February 1892 that they were not interested in the house since it was in a bad locality, and they had already been approached the previous Summer.

During February 1892 Mr. Coleman was advised that the property could be offered to him.

By March 1892 it was suggested that if Messrs Coleman would not purchase then perhaps they may be able to let the premises.

Coleman declined to give £200 for the house in a document dated 30th April 1892.

On the 3rd May 1892 a firm of auctioneers was recommended.

"WELL SITUATED FOR TRADE PURPOSES IN NORTH HOWARD STREET, WITH FRONTAGE THERETO OF OVER 20 FEET, AND ABUTTING ON ROW No. 26, CONTAINING SUNK CELLAR, FRONT BAR AND TAP ROOM, SITTING ROOM, KITCHEN, FOUR BEDROOMS AND LARGE ATTIC. IN THE REAR IS A PAVED YARD WITH DOOR TO THE ROW, WASH HOUSE AND COAL HOUSE. THE COMPANY'S WATER IS LAID ON. LAND TAX 5/7d - FOR SALE BY AUCTION THURSDAY MAY 26th 1892."

At the May 1892 auction the bids reached £165 and was withdrawn from sale.

The auctioneers advised 4th June 1892 that they regretted making charges without a successful result from the auction...
"No business being able to be done with Mr. Beevor".


On 21st June 1894 Mr. R. S. Nixon of Skeyton confirmed that he had agreed to sell the house to Lacons for the sum of £250.