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MARKET PLACE		 HOLT HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED 06-10-2013
HOLT LICENCE REGISTERS PS 28/6/1 to PS 28/7/3 (1878 to 1918)
then NORTH ERPINGHAM REGISTER PS/24/9/3 (to c1982)
Executors of Mary GIRLING 1880
WILLIAM CUSTANCE BAKER undated
MORGANS from 1895
BULLARDS 1961
WATNEY MANN  
BRENT WALKER 03.1988
  PUNCH TAVERNS by 2004
CAPRICORN ESTATES Summer 2012
Licensees :
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GEORGE BAINBRIDGE RUSH 14.12.1891
WILLIAM ELLIS 27.08.1894
REUBEN WILLIAM SHELLARD 26.08.1895
GEORGE JAMES CROM 24.08.1896
ALFRED DOUGHTY 23.08.1897
FREDERICK DYKE 09.01.1899
JAMES HOLMAN 24.06.1901
Mrs.HOLMAN Here 06.1904
FREDERICK CRISP undated
FRANCIS JOHN SIMMONS
Age 29 in 1911		 26.06.1911
MAY LOUISA SIMMONS 1923
WILLIAM STAMP CHAPMAN 24.10.1924
HERBERT JOHN STANNARD 19.12.1930
LEONARD W COOKE 23.10.1953
FRANK CLARKSON 03.05.1957
ALAN GILBERT HILL 1961
RAYMOND WILLIAM BULLER 25.11.1966
TREVOR D VERTIGAN 28.08.1970
IAN ALFRED PARROTT
(Protection Order 17.05.1974)		 21.06.1974
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MARLENE & GARY THOMPSON 1997
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TONY GROOM 2009 - October 2013


Holt - 12.10.1999
12.10.1999

Known as the RAILWAY HOTEL by 1892.

Family, Commercial & Posting House as early advertising.

Advertised To Let 24th September and 8th October 1898.
Available from Michaelmas 1898.

Offered To Let, September 1900, with Possession at Michaelmas.
Apply to H. Turner, Morgans Stores, Holt.


Also referenced as RAILWAY INN.

Renamed FIGHTING HENRY 1976 to early 1980's

RAILWAY TAVERN to 2013.

 

Morgans sales 1960 given as 132 barrels of beer and 22 spirits.

Plans to convert into shops and private dwellings announced September 2012.  Objections to loss of premises raised since it is `the last real pub in town'. Plans `deferred' 10th January 2013.

Fate to be finally decided at North Norfolk Council meeting Thursday 14th March 2013.
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Closed for business Sunday 6th October 2013.
Part to be converted into dwellings, future of remaining part of public house `uncertain'.
  Memories collected by Chris Holderness of Rig-a-Jig-Jig for the East Anglian Traditional Musical Trust.
The CH numbers refer to Chris's Archive on eatmt.org.		  
 


From William Atkins of Bodham, 2007           (CH B1-3-6b)
'I tell you who I knew as accordion player; I used to like to go and hear him play at Holt. He used to come up there Saturday nights, up The Railway pub there. Joe Fuller. He was foreman on a farm. Yeah, he was a good player, Joe was.'