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CHEQUERS GRESHAM G index   NORTH ERPINGHAM HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED by 1999 NORTH ERPINGHAM LICENCE REGISTER PS 24/6/1 to 24/9/2 (1872 - 1969) LETHERINGSETT BREWERY Supplied 1781 - 1803 WEYBOURNE BREWERY (Lease) Conveyed from William Johnson Jennis Bolding to S&P 11.10.1897 STEWARD & PATTESON From 25.10.1897 in Licence Register : Purchased by S&P in 1929. WATNEY MANN   BRENT WALKER 03.1988 -

Licensees : - Ө THOMAS HIRST 1789 - 1795 THOMAS HEWITT 1796 - 1803     JANTH. SHORE (Jonathan Shore Ag. Lab 1841 - age 35) 1836 JOHN WILSON & shoemaker age 44 in 1851 & master shoemaker by 1851 Died Q3 1864 1841 - 1864 Mrs MARTHA SOPHIA WILSON (30.03.1874 in Licence Register) Died Q1 1874 - age 76 1865 to 1874 Miss MARY WILSON Age 48 in 1881 (Died march 1917 - age 85) 1875 - 1896 WILLIAM JOHN WRIGHT Age 39 in 1911 Died September 1921 - age 52 18.10.1897 JULIA MARGARET WRIGHT 13.11.1922 WILLIAM THAXTER 11.04.1928 CHARLES HEBRON LAWES (Died December 1964 - age 85) 16.10.1933 ALFRED CHARLES LAWES (Charlie - died c1972) 13.10.1947 WINNIE LAWES (Winifred Myrtle Lawes) 19.10.1972 to closure

October 1997 One of 12 houses purchased by Steward & Patteson 3rd August 1929 for the total sum of £17,820. 1996 - "One of the very few totally unspoilt licensed houses in Norfolk". Landlady Winnie Lawes was featured in an article in the Eastern Daily Press 7th October 1997, then celebrating 50 years `behind the bar'. The house closed and plans to convert to a dwelling were opposed.

1864 - Gresham is one of the highest spots in Norfolk and 36 churches can be clearly seen and other objects, to a distance to 35 miles.