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BULLARDS  
Licensees :
SAMUEL WALES
age 34 in 1871
Died  December 1881
1863 - 1881
(WILLIAM MITCHELL at Hotel Tap - age 25) (1871)
Mrs SARAH ANN WALES
& coal merchant
age 46 in 1881
28.03.1881 - 1900
(FREDERICK J HINDS at Hotel Tap - age 30) (1881)
(ALFRED WAGG - Hotel Tap - age 26) (1891)
ERNEST ARTHUR WALES
(Son of Samuel & Sarah Ann Wales)
age 27 in 1901
1901 - June 1902
(W. ILLSLEY - Hotel Tap - age 36) (1901)
Mrs. ADCOCK here August 1902
HARRY WILLIAMS
Age 45 in 1911
by March 1903
to at least 1933
(EDWARD GOFFIN - Hotel Tap - age 35) 1911
ARTHUR EDWIN PARSONS 1937 - 01.1940
Mr. D. BAKER
Bullards Brewery rep.
08.01.1940
VICTOR BRINLEY COOMBE by 1949
REUBEN WILKES 10.11.1958
ARTHUR EDWARD STEPHEN WILLMOT 24.07.1961
SIDNEY GEORGE 31.12.1962
ROY REVELL 13.06.1966

Herbert Klee is given as a partner at the hotel in 1901

Thanks to Bob Wales 28.10.2006


c1875
c1875

c1930
c1930


Also as the GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY HOTEL

Family & Commercial Hotel dating from at least 1863.

Samuel Wales advertised September 1863 that the house was replete with every comfort and accommodation and commanded fine views of the German Ocean and the Lincolnshire Coast.

Ernest Wales was shot in the head by Hubert Klee on 2nd January 1902. On 24th January 1902 it was reported that he was in a critical state, the bullet not removed, and a journey to hospital because of the risk involved.
Hubert Klee, the assistant manager, committed suicide after the shooting. His funeral was on Sunday  5th January and "several hundred people" attended. A large congregation attended St. Edmund's Church in the evening where Klee was said to be "punctilious in his religious duties, but had fallen away of late, drawn away by a life which was eminently unfitted to the temperament of the poor lad, whose sad end had spread such gloom over their small community"
On 11th January 1902 it was reported that young Klee was formerly a pianist in the Hunstanton Pier Band, and Wales "took a fancy to him" and persuaded him to live with him at the Railway Hotel.

Harry Williams, of the Sandringham Hotel sought to employ a Kitchen Maid, a General Maid  and a Good Waitress for the Railway Hotel, 27th May 1902.

The Excellent household Furniture, the Whole Contents of the Hotel, were For Sale by Auction, Monday 16th June 1902, upon the Instructions of Mr. Ernest Wales who was relinquishing Business in consequence of ill-health.

Closed 1967 - Reopened as the WASH & TOPE