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29 KING STREET
St. MARGARET
CHEQUER WARD FULL LICENCE CLOSED c1914
KINGS LYNN PETTY SESSION REGISTERS PS 4/3/1 to 4/3/3 (August 1872 to February 1956)
HOGGE & SEPPINGS  
T. J. SEPPINGS  
J. SEPPINGS  
T. J. SEPPINGS  
COLCHESTER BREWERY  
COOPER BROWN  
COLCHESTER BREWERY  
Licensees :
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WILLIAM MILLINGTON 1822 - 1825
MARY MILLINGTON 1830
WILLIAM DIGGINS 1836 - 1839
WILLIAM BATTERHAM
age 33 in 1851
& carpenter
1845 - 1856
THOMAS LANGLEY
& carpenter
by 1858
Monday 18th April 1870 - Ordered to pay costs for having seven men and one woman drinking in the house at two o'clock on the morning of Thursday 14th April. His first offence.
BENJAMIN WILLIAM LANGLEY 15.10.1883
ARTHUR HORN
& carpenter
(Note : A. Horn is first noted in occupation from the 1891 census - perhaps acting as a manager?)
10.04.1905
MARY ANN HORN 11.03.1912 to closure




Formerly the SUN in 1736.

The SHAKESPEARES HEAD in 1777

Adjoined the GLOBE HOTEL.

Thomas Langley of the Shakespeare Inn, advertised 1869 and 1870,  that he always had a good supply of gates, sheep racks, sheep troughs, bullock bins, straw bins, ladders, &c.


Property advertised for sale in the Lynn Advertiser of 23rd April 1920.
`For sale by auction Wednesday, 5th May 1920.
Valuable freehold property formerly known as the Shakespeare Inn, but now unlicensed. Containing large front room, kitchen, cellar, wash house, coal house and range of buildings on north side of yard, together with a small front office, 6 good bedrooms and wc on first floor, 2 attics over, range of wood and corrugated iron and tiled buildings in large yard to rear, stabling for 5 horses, store houses, etc.
The property is very extensive, having a frontage to King Street of about 31 feet and a depth of about 168 feet....'

Referred for Compensation 9th March 1914

It was announced 26th December 1914 that following a claim of £362 15s from the Compensation Authorities, the sum of £300 had been approved.
Licence extinct 11th January 1915