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LAUNDITCH HUNDRED BEERHOUSE later
FULL LICENCE
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MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTERS 11.09.1794 and 14.09.1795 & PS 12/5/1 & PS 12/5/2 (1901 to 1975)
REEPHAM BREWERY Conveyed 26 November 1878 from Bircham & Son to Henry Bullard & John Boyce.
BULLARDS Purchased from Bidwells 01.04.1905 by E C Quilter - trading continued as Bidwells.
WATNEY MANN 04.04.1967
CHEF & BREWER November 1974
BRENT WALKER 03.1988
FREEHOUSE Private lease for sale - advertised 27.02.2001 with 22 cover restaurant.
Owners Marcus Seaman & Amelia Nicholson by November 2015
Licensees :
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JOHN ATHOW 1706
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CHARLES MOTT 1794 - 1795
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HENRY MORLEY
& cattle dealer
died 15th June 1840
1836 - 1840
MARIA MORLEY
age 39
1841
WILLIAM ATHOW 1845 - 1846
FRANCIS EKE 1849
ROBERT ENGLEBRIGHT
& carpenter
age 50 in 1851
Died Q1 1882
1851 - 1882
Mrs MARY ANN ENGLEBRIGHT 28.04.1882 - 1883
CLARKE CATOR *1886
JOHN HANSELL 1888
BARNABAS HOWE 1889
MATTHEW DACK 1890 - 1891
JOHN BENSLEY
age 50 in 1891
& farmer
1891 - 1894
SAMUEL DOBSON
& farmer
1896 - 1897
EDWARD OLLEY
age 43 in 1901
*1897 to 1932
JOHN THOMAS OLLEY 08.04.1932
HENRY FREDERICK GRICKS 19.11.1971
ADA GRICKS to 1990
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Brisley Bell - 1985
1985

Note : -
Ada Gricks retired at age 90,
she died August 2001 aged 101

c1920
c1920

Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.

  Courtesy of Norfolk Museums (Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse)

Image : c1938 - Taken by the Norfolk Chronicle.
Courtesy of Norfolk Museums (Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse) Copyright © 2024

 

Lot No. 43 in sale of Reepham Brewery Saturday 8th June 1878, then let to Robert Englebright at an annual rent of £35.
Described in 1878 as - Fronting the Green, Containing:- Kitchen, Parlour, Pantry, Club Room, Upland Cellar, 5 Bedrooms and Attic; Yard, Detached Wash House & Wheelwrights Shop; Farm Yard with Stable, Barn and Cow House, Stack Yard and Garden; 1 Enclosure of Pasture Land and 3 Enclosures of Arable Land; Also a Cottage with Garden adjoining; The whole site being 6 acres - For Sale Freehold with Valuable Common Right.

The lot was purchased by Bullards.

A beerhouse to 1966, when a Full Licence was obtained.
A bar was then installed for the first time.


Observed to be closed June 2014.

Still closed March 2016, but under new ownership and planned to re-open later in 2016.

Re-opened on the weekend of Saturday 11th February 2017.

The Bell April 2017
April 2017