Licensees :
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BENJAMIN THOMPSON & engine driver age 28 in 1851	1850 - 1851
JOHN EASTON	*1856
W EASTON	*1858
CHARLES SIMMONS age 31 in 1861	1861 - 1870
WILLIAM BYFORD age 66 in 1871 Died q1 1875, age 72	1871 - 1875
Mrs MARY BYFORD	*1875
CHARLES CUMBY Died 12th June 1880 - age 49	1877 - 1880
Mrs SARAH CUMBY widow age 43 in 1881	1881 - *1883
ELIJAH ROY age 41 in 1891	*1883 - 1897
ABRAHAM WILLIAM HOLLIDAY age 34 in 1901	28.05.1897
Friday, 11th February 1898 - Fine of 15/-, including costs, for, on 8th February, assaulting James Bales. Co-defendant Samuel Larner was acquitted.
EVELYN MAY DAWSON	24.11.1916
HORACE MINDHAM TROLLOPE	25.05.1917
CHARLES GEORGE BARNES	08.04.1927
ROBERT ARTHUR OLLEY	14.10.1932
ALFRED BERTIE CRANMER	12.02.1937
NORMAN REGINALD COOPER	12.10.1956
JACK WISEMAN (02.1957 - 09.1958)	08.03.1957
JOHN LESLIE WHITTAKER	10.10.1958
GEORGE ROBERT SYMONDS	06.03.1959
REGINALD NORMAN FEEK	08.07.1966
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PAUL AMOS manager	June 2010 - Jan 2011
House closed and sold
GRAHAM CARTER	June 2011

1898 image from the collection of the late Percy Rush.
Shown with permission

Offered for sale by auction Wednesday 6th August 1851. Then a Beerhouse with Cottage adjoining, Stable, other buildings, Garden and Orchard. Then in occupation of Messrs. Steward and Patteson and their undertenant.

Address as 72 Norwich Road in 1891 & 1901

Damaged by enemy action 5th October 1943

Full licence granted 4th March 1960 upon removal of licence from the OSTRICH, Longham and the WHITE HORSE, Edgefield


March 1997


October 2001