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139 MIDDLEGATE STREET
 GAOL STREET		 NELSON WARD FULL LICENCE by 1903 CLOSED 1941
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 & Y/CJ/32 (February 1903 - February 1953)
LACON & CO  
Licensees :
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GEORGE SAYER
Age 32 in 1871		 * 1869 - * 1892
HENRY KING by 1894
HENRY GEORGE KING 14.11.1913
CHARLOTTE EMILY KING 11.08.1916
HENRY GEORGE KING 14.11.1918
SIDNEY WILLIAM BUCKLE 09.12.1941
HARRY BURGESS 12.12.1944

 
Located on the South East corner of row 124, Middlegate Street to South Quay.

Closed for the duration of WWII according to a letter dated 25.11.1941.

No record of reopening discovered.

Licence removed to the WHEELWRIGHTS ARMS, Gorleston 17.10.1950.

See p.48 `Gt. Yarmouth In Old Photographs' pub. 1994

 

The Battle of Magdala was fought in April 1868 with the British forces taking what was at the time, the capital of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).