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BRIDGE STREET
 BULL STREET		 GALLOW HUNDRED FULL LICENCE -
GALLOW LICENCE REGISTERS 1798 to 08.09.1798 & PS 26/18/1 to PS 26/18/2 (1903 to 1975)
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BIDWELL of East Dereham
exors. of Thomas Shelford Bidwell   
BIDWELL & Co of Thetford Following sale to Eustace Cuthbert Quilter 1st April 1905
BULLARDS from 1924?
WATNEY MANN 11.04.1967
INNTREPRENEUR by 1990 (A division of Grand Metropolitan)
 FREEHOUSE Brewing own beer by 1998 
Reopened 13th August 2004 following an eight month internal refurbishment.  
CRITERION INNS By 2017
WELLINGTON PUB Co. as given January 2023
Licensees :
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ROBERT HOWLETT 1789 - 1798
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WILLIAM ARGER 1822
THOMAS GOULSON 1830
ROBERT GOULSON
age 52 in 1853
Died Q3 1858		 1836 - 1858
ANN GOULSON
Age 54 in 1861
(A confectioner in Bridge Street by 1871)		 1858 - 1864
JOHN GEORGE BURRELL 1865
THOMAS BAYLIS
Age 30 in 1871		 1868 - 1877
WALTER MORELAND ROSE
& horse & trap hire
age 42 in 1881
Died Q2 1888		 1879 - 1888
Mrs MARIA ROSE
(Age 39 in 1881)		 1888 - 1890
CHARLES JOHNSON
age 33 in 1891
See opposite.		 28.07.1890 to 1907
CHARLES JOHNSON junior 28.10.1907
JOHN ARTHUR GODFREY 30.10.1916
WILLIAM JOHN NICHOLLS 03.02.1925
ALEXANDER EDWARD NEWELL 30.12.1935
WILLIAM CECIL BRITTON
(Died March 1963 - age 72)		 10.05.1937
DOUGLAS BROWN MAJURY
(Possibly Joseph B Majury who died March 1958 - age 66)		 29.10.1956
ALBERT KITCHENER WRIGHT (Anthony Wright ?)
(Died November 1972 - age 72)		 12.11.1962
JOAN & TONY WRIGHT (1962) - 1980
NEVILLE & CHRISTINE FREESTONE 06.1980
TRICIA & GRAHAM BRANCHFIELD 1983 - 1998+
VINCE STEWART &
IAN HARPER		 August 2004
JENNA HARPER July 2016
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STEVE KNIGHT & JANE CHAPMAN
(ex ALBION, Cromer)		 10. 2017
 
LUKE MORTLOCK &
KATARZYNA ADAMCZYK		 08.2018

 

 The BULL - Fakenham (to the right)
c1915   (On RH side)

Offered To Let September 1866, an Old-established Inn, doing a capital business, with excellent Stables, gig-house, Cottage and Four Acres of Land.
Apply at Messrs. Bidwell's Brewery, East Dereham.

The same offer appeared July 1867.


Property described in Dereham Brewery (Bidwell & Co) document dated 1890 as being Copyhold with Four acres of land.

Monday 28th July 1890 - Although Mrs. Maria Rose had already vacated the premises in June, and Charles Johnson was running the house, Mrs. Rose denied that she had applied for transfer of licence to Mr. Johnson. Application for the licence transfer was thus adjourned until such time as all parties could agree.
On Monday 25th August 1890 both Mrs. Rose and Charles Johnson applied for the licence. It was said that Mr. Johnson already held a temporary licence for the house, as provided by Messrs. Bidwell. The magistrates granted him the full licence. The representatives of Mrs Rose said they would appeal at the Quarter Sessions to which they were ordered to provide recognisances of £40.

 

Blanchfields `Black Bull' beer won the `Best beer from a new brewer ' award at the Peterborough Beer Festival 1998

Closed Wednesday 31st May 2017

Temporarily reopened October 2017.
Official reopening scheduled for December 2017
...Did it happen?


Closed by June 2018
Opened August 2018

Closed by 7th January 2019.

For Sale, January 2023 - £500,000.