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| CHARLES B
HATCH |
1846 - 1850 |
WILLIAM
BUCKENHAM
age 50 in 1851
(Died Q3 1858)
See below |
1851 - 1855 |
JOHN HARDY
& threshing machine 1858
& coal merchant 1865
& farmer 1869
Age 40 in 1861 - 49 in 1871 - 58 in 1881 |
1858 - 1888 |
WILLIAM
PELLING
age 56 in 1891
Good accommodation for anglers;
Hearse & Mourning Coach Proprietor. |
1891 - 1892 |
ABEL BAILEY
(Licence renewed 14th September 1899)
Died Q4 1904 - age 66 |
1896 - 1903 |
FREDERICK J
ROLPH
Died Q4 1909 - age 40 |
28.10.1904 |
| FLORA ROLPH |
11.02.1911
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| THOMAS
ERNEST GORE |
22.04.1911 |
| GEORGE
TALLENBY DINSDALE |
24.10.1919 |
| PERCY HILL |
13.04.1920 |
FREDERICK
WILLIAM HOLMES
(Frank Holmes in 1925 directory) |
20.10.1922 |
| THOMAS
MOORE |
24.05.1940 |
| ALBERT
HENRY NEWBURY |
04.03.1946 |
| TOM MOORE |
31.03.1946 |
| JOHN
LEONARD ROBINSON |
07.07.1948 |
| THOMAS MOORE |
09.01.1948 |
| LEONARD BOX |
19.03.1948 |
| JOHN DOUGLAS
TENNANT |
03.04.1950 |
| JOHN M
RIDLEY-FORSTER |
02.02.1951 |
| MICHAEL JOHN
ROBINSON |
19.02.1954 |
| JACK HILL
STEVENSON |
05.11.1956 |
| ERNEST
LESLIE DICKENSON |
28.04.1958 |
MICHAEL JOHN
ROBINSON
& wife OLGA |
07.07.1958
to at least 1964 |
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At the Munford petty Sessions, June
1854, Thomas Palmer, innkeeper of Brandon was charged with
breaking windows of Railway Hotel whilst in a state of
drunkenness. He was ordered to pay for the damage, costs and
to enter into a bond of £10 to keep the peace. William
Buckenham was then charged by Palmer of assaulting him on
the same occasion. Mr. Buckenham was discharged upon paying
costs. |
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The majority of Brandon is within Suffolk
however this house was located north of the river Little Ouse,
which defined the Norfolk/Suffolk border until
1895.
Still considered Norfolk in 1915 Register of Electors.
1899 in date stone above corner door.
c1904 image from time of Frederick Rolph.
Offered for sale by auction 21st June 1849
Initial announcement of sale also included a Malt-office of 50 coombs
steep, Corn Granaries, Warehouses, Coal Stores, Wharf, a Compact Brewery
with Stables, Chaise-house, Cart Lodges, Boat-house, Gardens Pleasure
Ground, and Meadow Land.
`A well established INN, called the RAILWAY ARMS, admirably situated next
to Brandon Station, with excellent stabling for twelve horses, Gig House
and Cart Lodge, covered Nine-pin Ground, part of the walled-in Garden and
Pleasure Grounds adjoining the Inn (with valuable Timber and Trees
growing thereon), and containing , with the site of the premises, 1A 3R
33P....'
` The Pleasure Grounds face Brandon Station and are very advantageously
situated for erection of a Refreshment Room since there is no such
facility on any station between Cambridge and Yarmouth.'
Apportioned annual rent due from Mr Charles Hatch to Mr Drane at
Michaelmas 1850, will be £50.
Found in directories as the
RAILWAY HOTEL 1858 -
1888.
and as the GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY HOTEL from
1892
Corn Market held here 1892
August 2011 image by Ken Griffin
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