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PRINCE OF WALES KINGS LYNN Prince of Wales
Kings Lynn South Lynn
WISBECH ROAD
outside South Gates
SOUTHGATE WARD FULL LICENCE see O'TOOLS
KINGS LYNN PETTY SESSION REGISTERS PS 4/3/1 to 4/3/4 (August 1872 to 1965)
JAMES YATES of Wisbech
YATES BROTHERS of Wisbech
OAK BREWERY of Towcester
LACONS  
Free Trade ?  
WHITBREAD  
GREENE KING leased from Whitbread, 1991, when closed, awaiting future......
Licensees :
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HENRY GARNER
**See below
1844 - 1845
JACOB PRICE 31.08.1846
CHARLES WRIGHT 05.07.1847
THOMAS YOUNG 1850
ROBERT ALDERTON
age 34
& dealer
1851
LETITIA HALL 1854 - 1856
JOHN MAYS
printer & innkeeper
1858 - 1861
Mrs CHARLOTTE MAYS 1863 - 1865
JOHN THOMAS COXELL here 11.1866
FRANCIS CLARKE 21.08.1867
JAMES ROWE 14.10.1867 - 1868
JAMES JARVIS from 1868
Monday 7th October 1872 - Fine of £1 and 7s costs for keeping house open at illegal hours on 29th September.
CHARLES WRIGHT 05.01.1874
John Wardenham
According to Kelly - not in licence register)
1875
GEORGE BURNHAM 22.11.1875
HENRY BALDWIN 14.08.1876
JOHN PAGE 25.03.1877
ELIZABETH PAGE 23.06.1879
THOMAS PORTER PAGE 21.06.1897
DAVID COWEN
Previously at Steamboat.
1902 - 1912
JOHN DAVID LAWS
Licence transferred from Mr. Cowen 6th May 1912. Full licence from 22.07.12
22.07.1912
ELIZA LAWS 04.10.1937
MAURICE WALTER DOSSER
& wife ELIZABETH
13.06.1960 - 1970
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BRIAN REGINALD WOODS
(Retired November 1991)
06.09.1971 - 1991
Closed upon the retirement of Mr. Woods.

** In January 1843, Mr. Henry Garner of the RUMMER in Tower Street wished it to be known that he had no connection with the person of the same name at the South Gates, nor with any other person in Lynn or elsewhere.



The sale of the West Lynn house, the PRUSSIAN BARQUE was held here 14th June 1844.

Address as 5a Southgates Street 1854

Licensee David Cowen was summoned at the February 1912 Brewster Sessions for persistent cruelty to his wife. She was granted a separation. In his evidence Cowen stated he had been landlord of the Prince of Wales for 'nearly ten years'. Previously a seaman, he became landlord of the Steamboat - was there for six years - without complaint

Closed & boarded up from December 1991.

Reopened 1997 as O'TOOLS - Irish theme pub.