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WILLIAM GATHERGOOD Supplied by Bullards ?
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN  
CHEF & BREWER To closure 31st July 1974 and sale February 1975
FREEHOUSE Reopened by August 1975
Licensees :
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RICHARDSON BAKER
& farmer
(Died Q2 1903 - age 73 ?)
* 1860 - 1864
JOHN WARD
Died Q4 1868 - age 48)
* 1865 - * 1868
Mrs MARIA WARD
(Married William Gathergood Q1 1870)
Died Q3 1903 - age 73
* 1869
WILLIAM GATHERGOOD
& farmer
Age 59 in 1881
1871 - 1881 +
WILLIAM GATHERGOOD
& farmer
Age 56 in 1901
1890 - 1903
THOMAS TRIVETT 17.10.1903- 1905
HERBERT HASTINGS 05.12.1905
WILLIAM LANE 20.11.1906 - 1908
FREDERICK BARKER
age 34 in 1911
by 09.1909 - 1912
JAMES SMITH
(died Q3 1920 - age 62)
1916
CHARLES GREEN
Died Q1 1929 - age 52)
* 1922
GEORGE J MUNFORD * 1925
EDWIN W. DIGMAN 1929 - 1937
JOHN HARRINGTON
went to HEMSWORTH ARMS, Scoulton
to 1942
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B. K.  KING c1960 - 1962
B. F. STANIFORTH / STANIFORD 1963 - 1966
.............. RANDALL c1967
N. Mc KECHNIE c1968
Closed July 1974 to about August 1975
JOHN & PAULINE WALKER by 08.1975 - 1978
NICK & MARGARET MITCHELL 05.01.1979 - 1983
BOB ROURKE
(here 9 months)
12.1986 - 1987
BERNARD BLAND &
COLIN GEORGE
by 12.1987
JEAN & JOHN HEESON-GREENE 1998
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Deopham Victoria - 04.07.1997
July 1997

Richardson Baker was taken to court by bricklayer James Lovett, Friday, 8th August 1862. A debt of £2 16s 5d had not been paid by Baker who said Lovett owed £1 14s 10½d for beer and tobacco supplied between 25th December 1860 and 20th February 1862. His Honour ordered that the difference between the two claims be paid immediately (with costs) since neither party could prove the other wrong.

Lot No 1 in auction Friday 25th September 1903, upon the instruction of Mr William Gathergood.
A Freehold INN or BEERHOUSE including, Parlour, Bar, Cellar and 4 Bedrooms, plus Clay and Tile Lean-to including Kitchen, Large Club Room and Dairy, plus approximately 2 acres of Land.
(Lots 2 & 3 were plots of land, each just over 2 acres).

The lot was purchased by Bullards and letter dated 26th September 1903 states that the proceeds of the sale would be expected to go towards settlement of Mr Gathergoods debts (To Bullards).

A shop & Post Office operated from a back room in the 1930's.

For Sale by Auction Friday, 27th February 1975.

In July 1981 selling Turners S.B.B, Adnams, Ruddles County, Greene King Abbott Ale and Tollys Original.

Post Office facilities re-established February 2000.

Observed to be closed and boarded up 24th January 2009
Plans to convert main building into dwelling and the restaurant into an office were published at end of October 2010.