EAGLE TAVERN - NEATISHEAD

Licensees :
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SARAH ALLEN (age 67 in 1851 - Brewer & farm 6 acres)	1845 - 1863
SAMUEL RICHES	1864 - 1865
JOHN WILLIAM WARD	1868
WILLIAM WARD	1869
JOHN WILLIAM WARD	1872
WILLIAM WARD	1875 - 1878
JOHN WILLIAM WARD	1879
WILLIAM WARD	1883 - 1888
RICHARD CHAPMAN	1890
RICHARD THOMAS CHAPLIN & carpenter	1891 - 1904
Mrs (Helen ?) CHAPLIN	1908 - 1922
THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW	1925
GEORGE HENRY SLAUGHTER	1931 - 1937
Accused of selling out of legal hours on the night of 6th January 1936. Case dismissed at the hearing 27th January 1936.
WILLIAM BENJAMIN POPEY	by 02.1948
JOHN WILLIAM HORNER	21.10.1968
NORMAN WILLIAM WAKEHAM	20.10.1969 to at least 1974

First named in 1868 directory.

Selling `Morgans Pale Ale, the craze of the Broads' according to an advertisement dated 1938.

Full licence granted 23.02.1959 following removal from the
TRIPLE PLEA, Bedingham.

Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
150 barrels of beer
54 spirits

Planning application November 1996 to convert into 2 private dwellings.

The magnificent sign can still be seen on a wall in the FAT CAT, Norwich. (Recent re-arrangements to decor have moved the sign from where it was first hung, into another bar area).

		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 Stuart Bush of Dereham (CH B10-1-1b) '. . . there was plenty of music playing in Neatishead Eagle: 'Moco' Miller step danced and played mouth-organ at the same time. Two brothers also performed: Jakie Watt played mouth-organ and George Watt the melodeon. They both step danced as well. Apparently they were known collectively as the 'Ogle Watts.' ~ From Peter Colk of Dilham, 2005 CH B2-3-17b) PC: My father used to step dance. He only had to hear a tune, a bit lively tune, and he'd be step dancing. RJJ: Did he ever play for step dancing? PC: Oh yeah, often . . . catchy little tunes. RJJ: Which pubs? PC: Usually it would be the White Horse or possibly the Eagle in Neatishead. The Eagle, they always had an accordion in the pub, the Eagle, and they kept it in very good condition.