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BECCLES ROAD
NR31 9AB
- BEERHOUSE
FULL LICENCE from 1954
CLOSED
TUNSTEAD & HAPPING LICENCE REGISTERS PS 26/18/4 (Feb 1968 - Feb 1974) &
PS 18/14/3 Gt Yarmouth licence registers 9th February 1973 to 14th February 1980
STEWARD & PATTESON  
WATNEY MANN   
NORWICH BREWERY   
BRENT WALKER    
PUNCH TAVERNS     
ADMIRAL TAVERNS Sold to Myles Harman and Mo Smith in 2012
FREEHOUSE From 2012
Licensees :
SARAH WOOLNER
(Died Q2 1852 - age 69 ?)
1841 - 1851
SARAH WOOLNER
(daughter - age 32 in 1851 ?)
1855 - 1858
ROBERT BEE
carpenter
(Frances Bee died Q2 1868 - age 37. Robert Bee married again Q2 1870 to Sarah Waterson)
* 1861 - 1881
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JAMES E RIVETT
age 46 in 1901
1891 - 1901
GEORGE THOMAS HENRY to 1906
ARTHUR KEMP
According to a report of being assaulted on 24th December 1910.
William Kemp, age 55,  as census 1911.
14.11.1906 - 1911
FREDERICK KEMP
1912
EMILY KEMP here 1914
WILLIAM KEMP
See below
1916
ARTHUR KEMP * 1921
FREDERICK KEMP
(Died Q2 1929 - age 60)
* 1924
FREDERICK EDWARD T. HOLT
(Died Q2 1979 - age 82)
1928 - 1955
EDWARD THOMAS HOLT 1968 - 1977
COLIN ROY COE 01.12.1977
TERRY & MAUREEN DOWDING from 1984
ERIC AND MAUREEN (MO) SMITH from 1987
MYLES HARMAN &
MO SMITH
from 2012
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  It was reported, 4th November 1916, that Sergeant Arthur Frederick Kemp, son of William Kemp of the Decoy Tavern, had been awarded the Military Medal.  

Image provided by Myles Harman. Probably showing Frederick Holt.

Image provided by Myles Harman. Probably showing Frederick Holt and family.
 
Previously the BIRD IN HAND (1871) / POT IN HAND (1881)

DECOY TAVERN by 1891

At the Mutford and Lothingland Licensing Sessions, held Wednesday 14th February 1906, the Licensing Committee suggested that this house and six others, should be altered by the brewers or owners, as might be necessary, to allow future licence renewal.

2013 image by Myles Harman
2013

Proposal to demolish and build houses on site published June 2022.

October 2022 - Offered For Sale £350,000


Permission to demolition refused - Appeal against that decision made November 2022.