Licensees :
NATHANIEL STERRY	1830
JOHN GILLINGS	1836
JOHN RACKHAM (Shopkeeper, King Street  1856 & 1858 according to Melville)	1844 - 1856
22.12.1855 - Persuaded to put 40s into the poor-box - see opposite.
FREDERICK BROWNE	*1856
JAMES HARVEY	1858
Monday 27th January 1858 - Fine of 5s for having house open the previous day at illegal hours.
JOHN RACKHAM Age 58 in 1861	1861 - 1872
Fined 5s for trading on Sunday 27th January 1861 at illegal hours. (NELSON TAP)
Mrs HANNAH RACKHAM	1875
EDWARD BRIANTON	1879
FRANCIS EDMONDS	1881 - 1883
SAMUEL DYBELL	1886 - 1888
HENRY HAYLETT	1890
ROBERT JOHN LAKE	1892
J C DENTON	1894
WILLIAM GIBBS	1896

In 1839 John Gillings is given at the LORD NELSON, King Street by Pigot, but at the NELSONS HEAD by Robson.

John Gillings is given (in error?) at the LORD NELSON, King Street 1845.
See NELSONS HEAD.
John Rackham is at the NELSON TAVERN, King Street.

Mr. Rackham was accused Saturday 22nd December 1855 of having in his house, on the forenoon of the previous Wednesday, several suspicious characters.
The case was not gone into upon Mr. Rackham undertaking to put 40 shillings into the poor-box. It was revealed that the real delinquent was John Rackham junior, who was keeping the house for his father. The a magistrate advised that if a more respectable person was not put into the house at once, all possible would be done to have the licence taken away, should he next apply for renewal.

Proposal made Tuesday 22nd August 1893 to remove the licence to the Park Hotel, St. George's Park. Amongst much argument, including the fear that the Hotel would become "something like a German Beer Garden or a Rosherville", the application was refused.