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33 BLACKFRIARS STREET PARADISE  WARD FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1917
KINGS LYNN PETTY SESSION REGISTERS PS 4/3/1 to 4/3/3 (August 1872 to 1956)
Mrs ELIZABETH PIPE of Kings Lynn
WILLIAM PHILLIP  
FREDERICK JOHN CARPENTER of Kings Lynn from 1899
ALFRED LOOMBE CARPENTER of Kings Lynn
Licensees :
JOHN ELY
(Crystal Fountain)		 1854 - 1858
JAMES SPOONER
(Crystal Fountain)
(Died January 1910 - age 83)		 * 1859 - 1861
ROBERT HEMSBY / HENSBY 1863 - 1865
WILLIAM LEACH
(Crystal Fountain)		 1869
GEORGE NEWHAM by 1872
LYDIA SKIPPER 12.05.1873
SAMUEL GLASON 08.05.1876
JOHN SADLER 27.03.1882
CHARLES CRANE 12.10.1885
THOMAS CURSON 15.11.1886
CHARLES CHERNEY 25.07.1887
EDWARD SEWELL CANHAM
boilermaker		 14.04.1890
JOHN ROLL 08.02.1892
EDGAR PHILIP PIPE 25.07.1892
FRANCIS HENRY NEEP 29.05.1893
EDGAR PHILIP PIPE 16.11.1896
SAMUEL FLEY
(died January 1903)
(Also found as HEY)		 09.04.1900
MARY ANN FLEY 06.04.1903
CHRISTOPHER CARTER HALL 06.02.1905
PERCY WISEMAN 17.07.1905
HERBERT JOSEPH GREEVES 20.01.1908
HENRY W. KENT 09.10.1911
ROBERT KENT 10.02.1913 - 1916




Previously the PLASTERERS ARMS (1846).

John Ely advertised December 1857 that "if you wish for a Glass of Good Ale, try the Splendid Sparkling XXXX Suffolk Ale, at the Crystal Fountain."
Mr. Ely was the sole Agent for the sale of the XXXX Suffolk Ale in Lynn.

As the FOUNTAIN 1865 and in the Licence Registers from 1872.

Address given as Blackfriars Road in 1860's.

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Offered for sale by auction Thursday May 11th 1899.
(as the FOUNTAIN INN)
Lot number 6 in the sale of the estate of the late Mr Philip Pipe.
Described as having well arranged cellars and
an entrance to Clough Lane.
(Lot 1 of the same sale was the ROSE, South Street )
Purchased by Mr F J Carpenter for £840,
plus £38/12/- for fittings.

 

Named 31st August 1916, as an Alehouse, subject to closure by compensation.
So likely to have closed in 1917.