| Licensees : | 
       
      
        CHARLES 
		AYTON 
		according to Hunt 
		(Carpenter in 1846) 
		Died by July 1850 | 
        1850 | 
       
		
        | Mrs AYTON | 
        1850 | 
       
		
        STEPHEN
        CUSHING 
		Age 30 in 1851 | 
        *1851 - 1869 | 
       
		
        WILLIAM
        HOWARD 
        & coal dealer | 
        1872 -
        1883 | 
       
		
        JAMES
          BRUNTON 
          according to Kelly | 
        1883 - 1885 | 
       
		
        | WILLIAM ELLIS | 
        1885 | 
       
		
        | JOHN RIDER | 
        1888 | 
       
		
        | GEORGE E
        BOURNE | 
        1890 -
        1925 | 
       
		
        | JONATHAN
        DIXON | 
        here 11.1927 -
        1934 | 
       
		
        EDWARD
        GEORGE BALL 
		Died 16th January 1940 - age 52 | 
        1937 | 
       
		
        | - | 
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        | L J SEAMAN | 
        1967 | 
       
		
        | - | 
         | 
       
      
        Closed 1977. 
		Dominic's Restaurant to 2000 
		Renamed the Bear, April 2000 and refurbished. | 
       
      
        | SUE DICKERSON | 
        May 2000 | 
       
      
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        | DANIEL & PAUL BURCHAM | 
        26.01.2025 to 
		end March 2025 | 
       
		 
			
		 
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    	c1950 
		 
		  
    Described in STEWARD & PATTESON documents as being first supplied 1850/1851 
	 
	For sale by auction Thursday 1st August 1850, in the occupation of Mrs 
	Ayton. An Ale House doing a Good Business in the Ale and Porter Trade. 
	Sale upon the instructions of the Representatives of Mr. Charles Ayton, 
	deceased. 
	 
	Licence refused at the 3rd September 1867 sessions.... 
	Renewed......? 
     
    Offered bed & breakfast in 1967/8 directory. 
     
    Closed by Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd., 9th October 1977. 
     
    Later reopened as a restaurant. 
     Renamed the  BEAR after April 2000 
	 
	Closed December 2012. 
	 
	Destined to reopen 2nd May 2014 as  RY'S BAR & 
	GRILL 
	 
	 
	 Reopened as the  
	BEAR, 26th January 2025, but 
	closed again by 1st April 2025.  "Due to circumstances beyond control".
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