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CLACKCLOSE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 7/4/1 to PS 7/4/3 (1917 - 1949)
CHATTERIS BREWERY The Brewery and 29 Public Houses in Cambridgeshire, Huntingtonshire and Norfolk sold 7th March 1808.
NATHAN GRAY Common Brewer, March, Isle of Ely.
A & B HALL of Ely here by 1885
HALL, CUTLACK & HARLOCK from 15th December 1930
STEWARD & PATTESON   
Licensees :
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JOHN NAYLOR
Died 1865 - See below
to 1825
JOHN CAPON BROWN to 1828
JOHN BARTON
1836
ROBERT FULLER
Age 40 in 1841
1841 - 1845
GEORGE FULLER 1846
ROBERT VINCE
age 36 in 1851
& master blacksmith
1851 - 1856
JAMES COPEMAN 1858
WILLIAM SAYLE 1859 - 1868
16th May 1859 - Fine of £1 and 11s costs for permitting drunkenness in his house on 4th May.
JOHN WARD 1869
ROBERT YOUNG 1871 - 1872
Mrs SUSAN FORBY 1875
JOHN INGATE 1877
EDWARD FRANK FINCHAM 1879 - 1885
SUSAN FINCHAM
widow
1885
FRANCISCO PALMER 29.09.1885
CHARLES PARKER 1888
J BATEMAN 1890
GRIMMER ROLPH / ROLPH GRIMMER 1891 - 1892
GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH HOWE 1896 - 1900
ALFRED BELL 1904 - 1910
ROBERT JOHNSON
Age 31 in 1911
11.07.1910
HERBERT JAMES WICKS 13.11.1913
FRANK WALDEN 08.01.1923
BERTHA WALDEN 03.03.1924
FRANK PHILIP WALDEN 12.10.1925
ARTHUR JOHN RAYNER 18.07.1927
WILLIAM LAWS 30.09.1929
ERIC WILLIAM CROSS 04.11.1946
JOSEPH HENRY NIGHTINGALE
Died April 1963 - age 66
20.09.1948


It was reported Saturday 25th November 1865 that John Naylor, born 29th May 1748, had died on 30th October 1865, at the age of 117. He had retired from the George & Dragon in 1825 having run the CROWN at Downham before that.

For sale by auction Monday 7th March 1808.
Part of the extensive estate of the Assignees of William Fisher, brewer of Chatteris. Listed in sale notification as the GEORGE, with four cottages.

Offered To Let July 1828, including Stables and Orchard.


On Thursday 7th July 1870 a group of labouring men entered the house at about seven o'clock in the morning. By eleven o'clock they had consumed three pints of raw brandy.
Whilst they were carousing, William Goat, on old man with a wooden leg, passed by and they called him in. Mr. Goat was then treated to three measures of brandy, the first being about one gill, which he drank in three draughts. At about eleven o'clock he sat down and rested his head in his hand. It was soon after this that he was found to be dead. At the inquest the following day it was said that the brandy had hastened his death, but cause was the result of acute bronchitis and serious congestion of the lungs.
The Jury wished the Coroner to caution the landlord against permitting people to drink raw spirits at such an early hour and in such immoderate quantities.
(Unfortunately the landlord is not named in the report)


Address also as Downham Street.

Demolished for `road improvements' c1966