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St. JOHNS HEAD Gt. YARMOUTH S index
58 NORTH QUAY
ROWS 45 to 47
MARKET WARD 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 (1973 - 1980)
LACON & Co  
WHITBREAD
FREEHOUSE  
Licensees :
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THOMAS STRINGER 1819 - 1824
JONATHAN BARNES 1830
PHILLIP RIVETT 1836 - 1839
(JOHN RIVETT according to Robson) (1839)
THOMAS PURKIS 1844 - 1856
Mrs ELIZABETH PURKIS 1858
JOSHUA  PURKIS 1861 - 1865
CHARLES BARRETT
& cabinet maker
1868 - 1877
Mrs SUSANNAH BARRETT
& corn meter's office 1886
1879 - 1886
JAMES LEEDER / LEADER 1888 - 1892
WILLIAM PAYNE 23.12.1892
WILLIAM LOVICK 1896 - 1900
WILLIAM COCKS by 1901
HARRY WILLIAM HAMMOND 26.09.1919
GEORGE BURWOOD 03.01.1922
GEORGE CHARLES WILLIAM WRIGHT 08.11.1927
OSCAR GUY HOWARD 29.08.1944
Convicted 14.02.1945 for selling out of hours.
Fine £5 or 1 month in detention.
BERTIE WILLIAM BENTLEY 10.07.1945
ALBERT WILLIAM VICTOR FARROW 11.12.1945
GERTRUDE MARY FARROW 17.10.1950
JOHN RICHARD McBRIDE 05.11.1963
FRANCIS ERIC BUCKLEY 02.06.1964
JOHN COOKE 04.04.1968
BRIAN EVANS 07.12.1972
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BARRY AUSTIN &
PATRICIA GEORGE
c1996 - 2020
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The St. Johns Head - 2000

`Acquired ' by Lacon & Co in 1787.
Rateable value then £6.

Said to be built on land confiscated from the Carmelite Order.

Grade II listed.

Offered for sale May 1996 - £45,000.








New owner Gillian Harwood from 7th February 2020



See page 35 of `Gt. Yarmouth Revisited ' - Published 1996.