Licensees :
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GEORGE SMITH bricklayer age 58 in 1851	*1841 - 1872
JOSIAH PEAKE	1875 - *1877
GEORGE SMITH	1879
Mrs SUSAN WOODCOCK age 66 in 1881	1881 - 1883
THOMAS SAYER	1888
THEOPHILUS THOMAS SMITH age 31 in 1891	1890 - 1896
Mrs SUSAN SMITH age 42 in 1901 married Arthur Graham May 1903	1900 - 1903
Mrs SUSAN GRAHAM	1903 - 1908
WILLIAM HALLS	1912
JAMES WOOTTON	1915
Charged Monday 12th April 1915 of allowing drunkenness on his premises on 3rd March 1915. Fine of 20s.
CHARLES ASHFORD	1916
Mrs HARRIET ASHFORD	1922 - 1929
ARTHUR CLARKE	1933 - 1939

Landlady Harriet Ashford and daughter Hilda Bass c1925

As the HAMMER & TROWEL  1875, 1879, 1883 & 1888

2nd October 1905 - Messrs. Lacon & Co. applied for permission to rebuild the house ten feet back from the existing position in order to make improvement to the corner of White Hart Street. The brewers were willing to give up the licence of the HALF MOON in order to gain the permission. The new house to have four bedrooms, stabling for three horses and coach houses. Building could commence about six weeks from approval.
The Bench granted the application.

Licence removed to the EELS FOOT INN, Ormesby St. Michael 7th March 1939 - a Lacons house.

 

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