| Licensees : |
| - |
|
GEORGE S. SMITH
As given March 1862 |
25.03.1862 |
EDWARD SMITH
& corn merchant |
1863 - 1864 |
| HENRY CRANE |
1865 |
| Monday 4th December 1865 -
Fine of 5s for having house open at prohibited hours. |
| GEORGE FRANCIS CRANE |
1868 - 1869 |
| HENRY P CRANE |
1872 |
| GEORGE FRANCIS CRANE |
1873 - 1879 |
| WILLIAM BERKLEY |
1881 |
| WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BERKLEY |
1883 - 1886 |
| WILLIAM ARTHUR DICKER |
1888 - 1894 |
| CHARLES HAMMOND |
1896 |
| Mrs MARY ANN WOODS |
by 1900 |
| FRANCIS JOHN JESSOP JOY |
16.04.1915 |
| MARY ELEANOR JOY |
31.05.1921 |
| ROBERT NORMAN SHORE |
20.09.1921 |
| ARTHUR GEORGE HAMMOND HUNT |
07.04.1931 |
| THOMAS HAMILTON DENNY |
28.12.1932 |
| GERALD
GLANFIELD BOYCE |
24.08.1954 |
| (Trust Houses Ltd) |
(1955 & 1959) |
| HAROLD DAVY
SEMMENCE |
01.11.1960 |
| ............
SHARP-BRASH (manager ?) |
c1962 |
| EDWARD
KENDLE THACKERY |
23.07.1963 |
Mr. & Mrs. FREDERICK GEORGE EVASON
managers |
20.04.1964 |
| LESLEY &
GERTRUDE CAROLINE LEE
(managers) |
c1965 |
WYN & WILLIAM
STANTON
managers
(William an ex-police officer) |
by 04.1967 |
| WYN & WILLIAM
ALFRED JAMES STANTON |
09.02.1968 |
| NORMAN GOODE |
11.12.1969 |
| ERIC WILLIAM
LEGGE (?) |
10.12.1970 |
| WILLIAM
ALFRED JAMES STANTON |
25.05.1971 |
| COLIN ERNEST
HOWES |
08.02.1974 |
| KEITH LIONEL
PAWSEY |
19.05.1977 |
| - |
|
On Thursday 27th March 1873, Mr. G. F. Crane sought to recover the
sum of £13 19s 7d from a Mr. Edward Preston. The defendant agreed to
repay at £4 a month, but the representative for Mr. Crane said the
offer would be accepted only if the repayment was £1 per week. An
order to liquidate the order was thus made.
|
c1907
Rebuilt 1910, allowing better access to Cobholm.
Gertrude Lee c1964/5
Image thanks to Vic & Mavis Johnson
09.2010
~
For Sale by Private Contract March 1862.
Comprising upper and lower Coffee-rooms, Refreshment Bar and Parlour,
Ladies' Sitting Room and 8 Bedrooms.
Water Closet, Kitchen, Scullery, Washhouse and Larder. Wine, Beer and
Coal Cellars, Taproom and other Offices.
Bowling Green, Kitchen Garden, Stabling for 7 Horses, Loose Box,
Chaise-house and carriage Sheds.
The whole containing 0A 2R 33P and in occupation of Mr. George
S.
Smith as a yearly tenant from Lady-day.
Offered For Sale by Auction 3rd July 1862.
Description as given in March of that year.
~
Given as the BEAR HOTEL, High Road,
Gorleston in 1871.
~
Reopened Wednesday, 31st May 1967 following a
£20,000+ "Face
lift" by Anglia Taverns. Including change of the L-shaped public bar
into the Lounge Buffet Bar with the interesting feature of a thatched
roof on the wooden structure. Ultra-modern cooking equipment allowing
the menu to cover everything from hamburgers to bacon and egg. Salads a
speciality. The most modern beer-dispensing equipment being used in the
bar with the cellar automatically cooled.
A small Cocktail Bar being attached to the Restaurant.
Some of the 14 bedrooms having private bathrooms.
"Lunchtime business had greatly increased over the last two years since
the oil executives arrived in Yarmouth".
~
Plans to turn into `Supported accommodation for the homeless' opposed
November 2011.
Demolition agreed 2013.
Site of a retail business 2014.
See page 71 of ` Gt. Yarmouth In
Old Postcards ' Vol 2 Pub. 1992
& page 116 of ` Gt. Yarmouth
In Old Photographs ' Pub. 1994
& page 86 of ` Gt. Yarmouth -
A Second Selection ' Pub. 1996
|
