| Licensees : | 
       
      
        | - | 
          | 
       
		
        | WILLIAM
        PARSONS | 
        1789
          - 1794 | 
       
		
        |   | 
          | 
       
		
        | TIMOTHY
          RICHARDSON | 
        1822 - *1826 | 
       
		
        |   | 
          | 
       
		
        | THOMAS
        LINDO | 
        1830 -
          1839 | 
       
		
        ROBERT
        EBBAGE 
        & blacksmith 
        (age 45 1851) | 
        1845 -
          1872 | 
       
		
        WILLIAM
        SHORTEN 
        & nursery & seedsman (1877 & 1883 
          & gardener (1881 - age 54) 
        & farmer (1891) | 
        1875 -
        1912 | 
       
		
        | REGINALD
        WALTER SHORTEN | 
        1915 -
        1937 | 
       
		
        | - | 
          | 
       
		
        FREDERICK CANNELL 
		Previously at 
		DOG & 
		PARTRIDGE, East Wretham | 
        1956 | 
       
		
        | PHILLIP & BETTY DAVIS | 
        31.06.1961 - 1977 | 
       
		
        | PETER & GLENDA PERKINS | 
        31.05.1977 - 1981 | 
       
		
        | TREVOR & IRENE PLUNKETT | 
        1984 - 1989 | 
       
		
        | SUE DICKERSON | 
        by 02.1999 to closure | 
       
		 
		 
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    August 1996 
      
		The Matter regarding the Relief of the Insolvent Debtor Timothy 
		Richardson was to be heard in the Court House, Lincoln Fields, 25th 
		January 1827. 
		As reported December 1826 when Mr. Richardson was described as late of 
		the Bear, Licensed Victualler and Farmer, and Carrier from Attleborough 
		to Norwich. 
		Address as Ellingham Road in 1863. 
	 
	Plans to demolish and turn site into housing opposed throughout 1998 & 1999. 
     Planning refused for demolition December 1999. 
    But site won approval for housing. 
     House closed and boarded up January 2000. 
     
    The name was reborn when the long closed premises of the ODDFELLOWS
    reopened as the BEAR, April 2000 
		 
		 
		
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