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STEWARD & PATTESON  
WATNEY MANN   
FREE HOUSE   
PUNCH TAVERNS  
FREE HOUSE from May 2013
Licensees :
JOHN LEMMON
beer retailer
1846
JOHN LEMMON - age 78
Master Wheelwright
Died Q2 1851
(William - age 27 - Journeyman saddler)
(Leonard - age 29 - Journeyman blacksmith - at different location to the two above)
No mention of beer.
1851
WILLIAM T LEMMON *1854 - *1858
LEONARD T LEMMON
& wheelwright & smith 1881
& engineer & brassfounder 1883
Died Q1 1893 - age 72
1864 - 1892
WILLIAM CHARLES WEST
Age 45 in 1901
& blacksmith
(Bankrupt 1903)
1895 - 1903
WILLIAM WYATT 1904
GEORGE FREDERICK THOMPSON
& blacksmith
(Granted a "Receiving Order" as reported in the London gazette, March 1909.)
07.1908 - 1910
Accused during the year ending February 1911 of selling out of hours, Found guilty, the licence was transferred to new tenant.
At the time of the offence, 7 persons had been discovered drinking on the premises - all were convicted..
FRANCES WILLIAMSON by May 1910 - 1911
Monday 13th June 1910 - Fine of 40s and 4s costs for having house open during prohibited hours on 15th May 1910.
ARTHUR EMIL KRAUSHAAR
Age 42 in 1911
1911 - 1915
G FINN 30.08.1915
CHARLES E BROWNE
Died Q3 1927 - age 73
11.10.1915 - 1927
ELIZABETH ANN BROWNE 1927
ERNEST JAMES BUSH
(Died March 1971 - age 87)
1927 - 1937
HARRY BASHAM 1942
Monday 7th September 1942 - Accused of receiving army petrol. It was claimed that 15% of the fuel in his car was army petrol.
Case dismissed.
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........ TAYLOR c1955 - 1960's
MARTIN & JUDY ......... 1970's
.ALAN LAMBERT 1989
PAUL & SUE CLARKSON by 09.1990 - here 07.1991
AARON & TRUDY LAMBERT 2009

25.08.1996 - The EAGLE - Gt. Hockham
1996


New (full) licence awarded to Leonard Tillott Lemon Tuesday 5th September 1865.

William West took on the house in 1895, he had his own capital of £7, a loan of £50 from his brother of which by 1903, he had repaid £35.
It was reported 22nd August 1903 that his examination revealed a deficiency of £84 16s 6d. (The house had been valued at £36 12s 6d when he first moved in.)

Advertised TO LET, 9th & 12th May 1908 with possession from 6th July 1908. A Fully-licensed House with Good Blacksmith's Shop.
Apply Steward & Patteson.

George Thompson was found to be insolvent with a deficiency of £103 16s 3d at the first meeting of his creditors, Saturday, 3rd April 1909.
"He had commenced trade without capital, and insufficient trade to meet expenses" (He had entered the business of innkeeper, blacksmith and agent for the sale of cycles with no capital of his own, a loan of £12 from his wife and a loan of £20 from the brewers.
Furniture and a piano, obtained upon hire purchase, had been removed by the owners prior to his bankruptcy.

Mr. Lambert celebrated ten years of occupancy and five years of ownership, Saturday and Sunday, 23rd and 24th February 2019, with live music and homemade pies.


1970's
1970's
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