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HIGH STREET
 EAST SIDE		 HOLT HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED 10.10.1958
HOLT REGISTER TAKEN 30th September 1794 & HOLT LICENCE REGISTER PS 28/6/1  to PS 28/12/1 (1878 - c1962)
JOHN MANN owner to c1894, or his Executors to early 1800's
FAKENHAM BREWERY Thomas Carleton
GREENE KING by 1908
STEWARD & PATTESON 04.02.1925
Licensees :
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ROBERT MASTERS
( as 1794 & 1795 sale notifications)		 1794 - 1795
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THOMAS MEADOWS 1817 * - 1822
JOHN RAMM 1830
WILLIAM GIBBS
age 58 in 1851		 1836 - 1861
Mrs A GIBBS
age 73		 1865
JOHN BASTARD
master mariner		 1868 - 1877
WILLIAM THOMAS GOLDEN HOWES by 1879 to 1884
ANNIE MARIA HOWES 23.08.1884
HENRY NASH PASHLEY 16.10.1886
FRANCIS KERRISON 13.10.1890
RICHARD WATTS 12.11.1900
ANNA WATTS 13.12.1909
HILTON PARKER PASHLEY 13.10.1933
NANCIE MARGARET EVERITT PASHLEY 21.03.1947
GEORGE W L BRAZIER 11.06.1954
JOHN LESLIE WHITTAKER 10.10.1958
to closure

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Illustration dated 1714.

A property auction was held here 20th June 1791.
(FISHERMANS ARMS)

William Hardy dined here in 1792.

Offered For Sale 30th August 1794.
( FISHMONGERS ARMS)
For Sale by Auction Wednesday 1st September 1794.
For Sale or to be Let, October 1795, under lease to Robert Masters.

For Sale by Auction, Thursday, 16th July 1801.
The property of the late John Mann, Merchant.

Sold in 1802 for the sum of £232

  The Freehold Fen Farm, near Southery Ferry was offered For Sale by Private Contract, July 1714. 90 Acres of Land and a Water engine were included. In the occupation of Thomas Porter Meadows who would show the premises.......

Thomas Porter Meadows was a prisoner in the Castle of Norwich, the Common Gaol. He was due to appear in the Court "for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors" on Wednesday 12th July 1715.

The same man as later licensee of the Fishmongers'  Arms ?		  


Thomas Porter Meadows is given as an Innkeeper in a baptismal record dated 8th March 1817. Name of house not given, but probably this house.
Thomas Porter Meadows assigned his Estate and Effects to John Ramm, Common Brewer of Wiveton and William Mash, Merchant of Cley in an Indenture dated 23rd June 1821, for the equal benefit of his Creditors.

Offered for sale by auction Friday 25th February 1831.
Described as an extensive business with a long range of Stables attached, and other outbuildings, also a newly erected Brew-house, and Store-room, together with a Bowling Green, walled in, and an excellent Lead Pump, well supplied with water. Immediate possession.

When sold in 1843 for £400 it included a Brewhouse at the back, 2 Stables and a Cellar.

For Sale by Auction Wednesday 11th October 1871 - Part Freehold, part Copyhold. One of thirteen licensed house to be sold.

A Bowling Green, on the opposite side of the road is recorded from 1807 to 1957.The house was damaged by enemy action 26th November 1944.

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Sales in final year of trading : - 86 1/8 barrels of beer. Licence held by S&P from closure 1958 to 6th May 1959 when surrendered in favour of new house at Thorpe, Norwich - Removal confirmed May 1960.
(Thorpe house thought to be the CANARY, Heartsease, which opened 1961)

Converted to a private house called `Sunbeams'.
Pevsner, in Buildings of England gives following description -
"On way from Church to Quay, Sunbeams was an Inn c1710 - 1720 "