Licensees : |
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WOOLSEY HECKER (?) |
1819 |
WILLIAM N. BURROUGHES
wine & spirit merchant |
1824 |
WILLIAM NORTON BURROUGHES
wine & spirit merchant
(& Town Councillor) age 52 |
1839 - 1851 |
WILLIAM
N BURROUGHS
wine & spirit merchant |
1861 - 1886 |
T P
BURROUGHS |
1886 -1890 |
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SEPTAMUS
WRIGHT
Wine merchants manager |
1901 |
WILLIAM EDWARD HOWLING |
by 1903 |
ALBERT WALKER |
10.01.1913 |
ARTHUR WELLINGTON EVERETT |
05.02.1937 |
HARRY BURGESS |
27.08.1940 |
CHARLES
THOMAS BANHAM |
18.08.1953 |
Licence
restored |
12.02.1960 |
HENRY JOHN
HODDS &
JAMES REGINALD FARLEY |
19.04.1960 |
HENRY JOHN
HODDS &
JOSEPH CHARLES EDMUND ALDOUS |
13.12.1960 |
JOHN
RICHARD McBRIDE &
JOHN GEOFFREY CLARKE |
12.12.1967 |
JOHN R
McBRIDE &
JOHN A HAMMOND |
28.08.1969 |
JOHN R
McBRIDE &
THOMAS GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH |
26.10.1972 |
GEORGE
CHARLTON HODGE &
THOMAS GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH |
24.10.1974 |
GEORGE
CHARLETON HODGE &
STEPHEN BASSETT |
10.07.1975 |
THOMAS
GERALD GEOFFREY FIRTH |
20.04.1976 |
PHYLISS
AUDREY FIRTH |
25.10.1979 |
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MIKE SPALDING |
1994 |
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ANDREW HALL
&
DANE REES |
June 2014 |
MARIA & KIRK ARMSTRONG |
Sept 2018 |
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Opened 1772 as BURROUGHS WINE LODGE.
In May 1828, William Burroughs offered Whitbread's Porter and Brown
Stout in Butts, Barrels and Half-barrels. Families would be provided
with Porter at 55s per Barrel and Brown Stout at 65s per Barrel. A
discount of 5% given if the account was settled within one month.
Address 1886 as 1 & 2 Market Place
Noted in 1907 as the oldest licensed house in Gt. Yarmouth.
Taken over by Lacon & Co in 1897.
(Although the house is listed as the property of Lacon & Co in 1824?)
Address also as 2 Market Place or Brewery Plain.
Known as BURROUGH'S WINE STORES to 7th May
1943 when destroyed by a bomb dropped by a FW190.
Rebuilt as the GALLON
POT to open 12th February 1960.
< img src="gpot22111996.jpg" width="368" height="220" />
November 1996
CLOSED by February 2018.
Plans announced by Ei March 2018 to carry out `dramatic renovation of
interior..... and upgrade exterior' to create `an American-style
diner... which could become the leading venue for food and functions in
Yarmouth.'
Reopened October 2018.
See p. 8 of `Gt. Yarmouth in Old
Postcards' - pub 1990
See p. 62 & 83 of `Gt.
Yarmouth - A Second Selection' - pub 1996
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