| NORFOLK PUBLIC HOUSES |
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Given in S&P records as being on the site of the FOX. Deeds date back to 1801. The Household Furniture, Bar Utensils and Club-room Fittings, property of Mr. Josiah Powley was to be Sold by Auction, Tuesday, 8th October 1895. On Monday, 16th April 1923, Mrs Emily Reeve, wife of the landlord of the Fox Inn, was charged with attempted blackmail. Gamekeeper Henry Fakes had died 11th October 1922, and the same day, Mrs Reeve (It was claimed under the signature G.I.B.) sent a letter to Henry's daughter Annie, stating that Henry had previously offered her £500 to allow her to open a tea shop with sweet shop, and not to disclose that he was the father of her child. She said she would settle for £250 and would accept an installment of £75. Mrs. Reeve was sent to trial at the Assizes (This story reached the Dublin Evening Telegraph, Daily Herald and the Lynn Advertiser of 18th - 20th April 1923) Licence transferred to the ROUND WELL, Costessey in 1939. House sold by S&P in 1939. (However - last licence granted 10th February 1941) |
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