Licensees :
ROBERT MIDDLETON	1847 - *1850
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JOHN WANTY SIMPSON (John Hardy Simpson 1861 ?) Age 44 in 1861	1859 - 1864
Fined 5s with 13s costs 21st March 1859 for having persons in the house and beer on the table at half past nine on the previous Sunday morning.
?	1865
JOHN WITT & fisherman	1868 - 1870
Monday 16th March 1868 - Ordered to pay 10s 6d costs having been charged of an assault on Henry Nicholls, an employee of the Great Eastern Railway Company, Harbour branch. Witt had been trying to take his fishing boat out of the harbour, but his path was obstructed by the "barque" of Nicholls. Witt had thrown a lump of coal at him.
Monday 17th August 1868 - Fine of 20s and 30s costs for having eight men drinking in his house during the hours of Divine Service on 2nd August and of allowing drunkenness on the same occasion. He was allowed one week to make payment.  He had appeared before the magistrates on the above charges on 10th August, but had been so drunk and violent that he was taken into custody and later discharged. This was his second offence of similar character.
In court Monday 2nd August 1869, given until 4:00pm to pay the fine of £1 with 13s 6d costs for selling beer on Sunday 24th July 1869 at illegal hours. In default to serve 14 days imprisonment.
JOSHUA GORE & shipbuilder (Josiah Gore 1875) Age 34 in 1871	by 1871
JOSEPH PRIEST	07.01.1878
ALFRED DRAKE	07.02.1881
JOHN LEMAN	30.07.1883
WILLIAM TEASDALE JARY	30.07.1888
JOSEPH BARKER	14.04.1890
STEPHEN THOMAS RAKE	04.01.1926
Convicted 01.04.1940 of supplying persons under 18 years of age - Fine 10/- Also for allowing consumption by persons under 18 years - Fine 10/-
WILLIAM JOHN BOWMAN	06.07.1959
PETER ROBERT DAWSON & wife SANDRA	11.12.1961 - 1974
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	Although this was one of the pubs frequented by the North End fishermen there is no proof that Vaughan Williams noted songs here in January 1905 as has been believed in the past.  His manuscript books suggest that he visited singers in their own homes and the note opposite about the refusal of a Music Licence in February 1904 is another clue.  He may have visited however, as he often did go to pubs to find singers.

Lot No. 74 in the second day of sale by auction of the estate of the late John Morse, held 8th & 9th September 1847.
The property included:-
Parlour, Kitchen, Cellar, Store Room, & Shrimp House, 2 Bedrooms. Stable & Coal Yard adjoining the Fleet - Freehold.

Address 1881 as `Over Fisher Bridge '.

Monday 27th March 1882 - Mr. Drake applied for permission to open the house one hour earlier in the morning. The house was close to the new dock being constructed and it was entirely due to this work that the extension was needed. Decision deferred to the next sitting.
On Monday 3rd March 1882 it was heard that Seven houses had applied for a licence to open at five o'clock in the morning. The reason given that the night workers at the new docks needed refreshment at the end of their shift and the day workers wanted `purl' before their day's labours.
The Mayor and Magistrates concluded to refuse all applications.

Publican Alfred Drake and ostler John Irwin were charged Monday 4th September 1882 of having used a lurcher on Roydon Common, on 18th August, for the purposes of searching for game, without a licence. Case dismissed since it was not proved that the dog was after game.

Listed 1883 as the SIDNEY SMITH.

On Monday 29th February 1904, Joseph Barker said that he had held a music licence since 1892 and sought renewal.
He had never had any trouble and had a nice music room  and ladies were not permitted.
The Chief-constable said that on the previous Saturday night there were about fourteen persons in the room and by about nine o'clock only five or six.
Sergeant Rayner said that the licence was not much used in the house and there was no music when he visited on the Saturday night. There were other music licenses in the vicinity.
Licence refused.