HOLE IN THE WALL - EEL'S FOOT

Licensees :
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EDMUND POSTLE age 60 in 1851 - keeper of beer shop (Agricultural Labourer in 1841 - no mention of beerhouse) Died Q1 1854	1846 - 1851
Not found 1854 or 1858
JAMES YAXLEY Retailer in Porter 1871 (age 25 in 1861 and occupation as boatman - no mention of beerhouse) Beerhouse keeper 1881 - age 45 Marshman & beer retailer (Out door licence) 1891 Died Q1 1907 - age 71	1863 - 1906
Tuesday 18th December 1906 - Fine of £2 4s, including costs, for having on 17th October, a person drinking within his gate, rather than on a bench outside the gate.
HORACE YAXLEY	1908 - 1916
Tuesday 14th June 1910 - Summoned for aiding and abetting James Yaxley (shoemaker) to catch tench on 8th May, within the close season and with other than a rod and line. A fine of 1s, in each case, was inflicted.
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JOHN YAXLEY	*1922 - 1937
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BILL YAXLEY	1952
EMILY YAXLEY	1966

Only records state OFF Licence 1948 - 1967.

Beer literally served through hole in wall - a window.

Also known as the EEL'S FOOT

Known in 1966 as Emily Yaxley's Beer House
according to correspondence in
Eastern Daily Press 23rd August 2006

Closed 1966 owing to ill health of Emily Yaxley and
due shortage of customers....
according to correspondence in
Eastern Daily Press 4th September 2006

** Listed in the Tunstead Hundred 1836, 1845, 1854, 1864 & 1865 but in the Happing Hundred 1846, 1858, 1863 & 1868.

In 1869 it is placed in the Tunstead Hundred, Tunstead and Happing incorporation.

Bill Yaxley was described June 1952, as an "old-time wherryman who wears gold ear-rings and runs a Hole-in-the-wall inn at the little harbour of Barton Turf".

		Memories collected by Chris Holderness of Rig-a-Jig-Jig for the East Anglian Traditional Musical Trust. The CH numbers refer to Chris's Archive on eatmt.org.
	From Peter Colk in Dilham, 2005 (CH B2-3-17a) Well I don't know if you know this about Barton Turf, but there was never a pub in Barton Turf, but there was what they called The Hole in The Wall. The last house on the left, as you go into the staithe, before you come to the water, had an arrangement with the brewery at Yarmouth, whose emblem was, I think, a canary - Lacons. But what they called it, The Hole in The Wall. You went in the back gates and he served you through like a hatch in the wall, and all his beer stood in barrels above the ground but like on a cold floor and racks. It was all straight from the barrel, but the beer used to be beautifully kept. He also ran, that man, Yaxley his name was, John Yaxley - funnily enough that man was also a coal merchant, the biggest coal merchant in Barton Turf, I suppose. RJJ: So Harry [Cox] sang in this place? PC: Oh Yeah. He used to sing outside. There's a great big chestnut tree, still there, and under the chestnut tree there were rough seats and most of the men in the village, if they hadn't got transport, because the nearest pub was The White Horse in Neatishead, or a little bit further afield, The Eagle in Neatishead [at least another 100 yards!], and they used to sit around there and drink at night down there, and have a sing-song as well. Someone, a woman there, again, her name was Yaxley but they weren't related, did say to me one day that she heard nightingales singing. After they'd been singing there, there were nightingales used to sing after they'd stopped. So whether there was any significance in that I don't know!'