| Licensees : |
| HENRY WHITING |
1864 - 1869 |
| (JAMES
MOSES at Hotel Tap - age 33) |
(1861) |
THOMAS MAHON
age 66 in 1871 |
1870 - 1872 |
| Mrs ELIZABETH
MAHON |
1875 - 1877 |
NOURSE & ROWELL
(William W Nourse 1881 - age 53
Benjamin F Rowell 1891 - age 33) |
1879 - 1896 |
| (GEORGE
CLARKE at Golden Lion Tap - age 31) |
(1881) |
| (ALFRED
NEALE at Golden Lion Tap - age 51) |
(1901) |
Miss KATE RENNISON
age 38 in 1901 |
1901 - 1912 |
Miss R. S. DANGERFIELD
manageress |
1916 |
| CHARLES
ERNEST GREY |
1933 - 1937 |
| DOUGLAS VICTOR GRAY |
by 1949 |
| PETER HORSFALL |
26.09.1960 |
| THOMAS ROWLAND HARMAN |
13.02.1961 |
PETER HORSFALL &
HORACE HINCHCLIFFE |
10.12.1962 |
NORMAN GOODE &
HORACE HINCHCLIFFE |
26.04.1965 |
NORMAN GOODE
& PETER HORSFALL |
14.06.1965 |
ROBERT KEITH
McMILLAN &
PETER HORSFALL |
10.04.1967 |
PHILIP & CHRISTINE MILNER
KEN & MURIEL CHANLEY |
here 12.1984 |
DENIS BEEAON
manager |
1989 |
| PHILIP & CHRISTINE MILNER |
here 12.1990 |
JOHN McKEOWN
manager |
1991 |
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December 1987
Built 1846 and opened in 1847 as the NEW INN.
The ROYAL
HOTEL by 1864
David Tatum, boots, and Thomas Rutland, labourer, committed a breach of
the peace by fighting on the premises on 7th April 1868. Each were fined
5s with 6s 6d costs.
Mr. Mahon provided a dinner in excellent style, Monday, 18th June
1870, for the firm of Messrs. Thew & Son, with their wives and friends,
celebrating their annual wayzgoose. ( A celebration normally held by
printers in Autumn when the waze, or stubble was still in the ground,
and at which feast, a goose was the head dish.)
``Piggies Paradise is open every Saturday night in the
Blue Room for Dining & Dancing until nearly midnight'' as advertised 1967.
August 2024 - "Former nightclub on ground floor to be converted ito five
bedrooms."
See page 95 of West Norfolk in Old
Postcards - first published 1989 |
