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25 BRIDGE ROAD
RUNHAM VAUXHALL
St NICHOLAS WARD BEERHOUSE
later FULL LICENCE
CLOSED
Gt. YARMOUTH LICENCE REGISTERS Y/CJ/31 & Y/CJ/32 (February 1903 - February 1953) & PS 18/14/2 (1953 - 1973) & PS 18/14/3 (9th February 1973 to 14th February 1980)
MARY ANN SMITH  
LACONS by 1928
WHITBREAD  
ADMIRAL TAVERNS by 2013
Licensees :
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T. BOWLES *1865
WILLIAM SMITH
fish merchant
*1869 - 1883
Mrs MARY ANN SMITH by 1887
ELEANOR SOPHIA ELLIS 05.02.1908
JAMES WALTER CLARKE 07.04.1908
WILLIAM ROBERT GEORGE 07.01.1916
GEORGE BUCKSEY 04.01.1921 
EMILY BUCKSEY 30.05.1922
WILLIAM MINISTER BURRELL 03.04.1923
MAUD SARAH BURRELL 10.03.1950
GILBERT THOMAS WALDEN 06.07.1954
PERCY ROY ALLEN 21.04.1959
Mr & Mrs SAMUEL MORGAN 01.11.1960
CLIFFORD HARRY SILLIS 25.05.1972
JAMES STACKHOUSE 07.12.1972
JOHN ROBERT TRAYNIER 14.01.1976
JULIE-ANNE GEORGE &
RUSSELL WILLIAM GEORGE
12.04.1976
- 1991
BOB & SALLY SMITH by June 1994
DOUGLAS & WENDY SMITH here 05.2010
GEOFF ADAMS by May 2012
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 The Suspension Bridge Tavern - 1986
1986

A wine licence was granted on Tuesday 23rd August 1887 following Inspector Basham reporting that the house was well conducted in every respect. <This licence apparently subsequently lost>


Beer retail only to at least 1937.

`Modernised over the years but retains traditional appearance and charm ' - Whitbread 1985.

£100,000 refurbishment reported June 1994.

Closed and for sale March 2009 - `Price reduced '

Reopened by 2012

For Sale, January 2021 for £150 to 200,000, with planning permission for seven apartments to be erected on the site.

Demolished October 2021

 

See page 32 of `Gt. Yarmouth Revisited' published 1996.