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Black Bull
BRIDGE STREET CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED - CLOSED by 1907
JAMES KING to 1813
BRIDGET & JAMES BLACKBOURN / BLACKBURN from 1813
STEWARD & PATTESON  
Licensees :
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Mrs LIFE to 01 1723?
   
   
GEORGE SMITH 1782
SUSANNAH SMITH 1794 - 1797
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JAMES BLACKBURN 1813 - 1814
ROBERT BENNETT 1822
Mrs BENNETT 1827
GEORGE GARMAN 1830 - 1839
Mrs GARNHAM widow
(Married Mr. Browne 1842)		 1842
WILLIAM BROWN
age 31 in 1851
&  farmer 50 acres		 1845 - 1851
JONATHAN EDMUND HUNT
(Also as John Edwin Hunt)		 1854
DAVID ADAMS 1856
Mr. BLACKBURN here 04.1858
WILLIAM LACK 1861 - 1869
Monday 7th August 1865 - Bound in a surety of £50 and two sureties of £25, to keep the peace, having been accused of using threatening language towards his wife.
WILLIAM LAWRIE
builder & stonemason
(as William Laurie 1875)		 1871 - 1875
HENRY DURRANT 1877 - 1883
RICHARD GEORGE AMISS
(At Bull, by 1888 previously at the TRUMPET, Norwich)
(R. G. ANISS 1884)		 here 07.1884
WILLIAM LAWRIE
(owner ..... & licensee ?)		 1885 - 1886
GEORGE SPARKES 1888 - 1890
WILLIAM RUMBOLDS 1891
GEORGE HENRY KIRKBY 1892
CHARLES COLLINS
(Charles Collen 1904)		 1896 - 1904

Formerly the BLACK BULL as document of 1708
QUEENS HEAD by 1723.

Advertised to let 28th February 1723 being late the house of Mrs. Life, deceased.

The Tolls of the Downham and Fincham Turnpike were to be Let to the highest bidder at an Auction held here Wednesday 24th January 1781.

Whilst at the Queen's Head, on Wednesday 10th June 1789, Mr. Benjamin Abel, farmer of Castleacre had a pocket book, containing four five-guinea Lynn Bank notes taken from his pocket.  The culprit, Henry Robinson of Downham was apprehended in London on Friday 3rd July 1789. He had got cash for three of the bills and still had the fourth. He confessed to the theft.

In a will executed 31st August 1813 the property of James King deceased included the SWAN at Methwold which was left to his son James King and in Downham Market, the Queens Head was left to his daughter Bridget (and her husband James Blackbourn)

Offered to let 31st March 1814 `All that Capital old accustomed inn'... apply to proprietor Mr. James Blackburn.

Mrs. Garman, widow George Garnham, married Mr. Browne of Shouldham Thorpe as announced in the Norfolk Chronicle of 3rd December 1842.

A dinner was held here Monday 5th November 1849 to celebrate the town being lit by gas for the first time. "The gas was of the best description and much praise was due to the engineer, Mr. Childs and the fitters, Messrs. Newell, Trotter and True."

For Sale by Auction Friday, 30th April 1858 with Immediate Possession.
With Brew-house, Stables, and other Outbuildings, Yards and Gardens, situate in Bridge Street, in occupation of Mr. Blackburn.

Advertised April 1892 To Let with early possession.

Former owners include :-
Mary Parlett, Richard Saffery, Martin Southous
& William Lawrie (a mason)

Original sign hung from a wooden arch spanning the road.

QUEENS HOTEL 1875 & 1888

S&P records state as sold Christmas 1907

Became a telephone exchange, Liberal club, fire station & electricians shop & dwellings.