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HIGH STREET
EAST SIDE
HOLT HUNDRED BEERHOUSE CLOSED c1953
HOLT LICENCE REGISTERS PS 28/6/1 to PS 28/12/1 (1878 - c1962)
M A MITCHELL of Blakeney
ARNOLDS Mary Elizabeth Arnold  of St Margarets Brewery
LACONS E LACON & Co of London 1902
TRUNCH BREWERY LTD 1941 to 1952
MORGANS to 1954
Licensees :
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JOHN BOWLES
age 41 in 1851
& bailiff
(Died Q4 1889 - age 78)
*1846 - *1881
Mrs EMILY BOYCE
Died Q3 1888 - age 62
19.10.1881
WILLIAM HENRY GOODINGS 13.10.1888
HENRY HARCOURT 19.10.1889
JOHN OVERMAN
age 70 in 1891
Died Q3 1895
10.11.1890
CAROLINE OVERMAN 26.08.1895
ANTHONY BROWN
age 60 in 1901
Died Q3 1910 - age 74
12.11.1900
CHRISTIANNA BROWN
Died Q3 1910 - age 74
24.10.1910
(John Curl in residence until 1915 - Not found in licence register) (1915)
MALVINA WRIGHT 30.09.1921
GEORGE LONG 16.11.1923
WILLIAM GRAY 03.12.1937
RICHARD WILLIAM CHAPMAN 08.08.1941
CHARLES W GRAY 04.12.1942
JOHN RATCLIFFE 04.02.1949

 

According to the Norwich Mercury :-
Monday 6th February 1905 - Owners Lacons and occupier Mr. Brown applied for renewal of license following each receiving notification that the licence was not required.
Police Inspector Lewis had measured the front of house to be 18½ feet. The White Horse stood opposite with a distance of 27 feet 9 inches separating the two houses. The Ship inn was 31½ feet distant.
The representative for Messrs. Lacon said that the house was very and the only one owned by them in the Holt Division. There had been no complaint against the house and trade was very respectable at 90 barrels a year. Since there was no fixed tenancy guaranteed, tenants could not be expected to spend large sums of money on the house. It was not a pretentious house and used by the labouring classes who appreciated it as the only outlet for Lacon's beer in the district.
Upon confirmation from the tenant of the business and custom, the Chairman said that the licence would be renewed.
(Another newspaper reported that the decision to renew the licence was referred to the Quarter Sessions. This appears to nave been in error).

 
Licence renewal not applied for May 1954