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STATION ROAD SHROPHAM HUNDRED - CLOSED 02.01.1967
STEWARD & PATTESON to closure
Licensees :
WILLIAM READ 1861 - 1864
SARAH ANN READ to 06.1865+
CHARLES CONDREY 05.09.1865
JAMES WATLING 1868 - *1881
Tuesday 17th August 1869 - Fine and costs amounting to 7s 6d for allowing 14 lambs to stray on the highway at Old Buckenham on 31st July.
LEONARD TILLOT jun.
Went to Royal Hotel
to 09.1882
JEREMIAH DUNNETT
& dealer
(According to White)
See opposite
01.08.1883
FREDERICK CHARLES HEATH
(According to Kelly 1883 - See GROVE)
1883
ROBERT SELF
Age 67 in 1891
1885 - 1896
WILLIAM LEONARD SELF 1897 - 1900
WILLIAM RICHARD GLEN 1904
FREDERICK F. LIFFIN
(Francis F. Liffin April 1906)
here by April 1905 - 1906
CHARLES WILLIAM TURNER 1908 - 1912
ALBERT MALLOWS 1915 - 1922
WILLIAM BOWLES 1925 - 1933
WALTER SCOTT 1937
EDWARD GAYLAR c1954 - 1957
ALBERT CHARLES PURKISS
(Left at mid-day on 2nd January 1967)
1957 - Closure

Image thanks to Nigel Lettice and the Purkiss family.

Image thanks to Nigel Lettice & the Purkiss family.

Steward & Patteson sought to gain possession of the Old Railway Tavern from Mrs. Sarah Ann Read on Wednesday 14th June 1865. The possession was granted, as usual,  "within a specified period."

New licence awarded to Charles Condrey Tuesday 5th September 1865.

Dealer Jeremiah Dunnett was summoned by Innkeeper Mr. F. C. Heath Monday, 8th October 1883 for an assault on 14th September. Fine and costs totalling £1 1s 6d.

The galvanised roof was lifted from the walls (of a lean-to ?) and carried to an adjoining paddock, during thr storm of Saturday 21st February 1908.

Address also as Railway Road.

The house stood close to the New Railway Tavern, separated by a lane, leading to a windmill.

34 barrels of beer sold in year prior to closure.
Closed as being `Uneconomic'
Demolished.