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SOUTH GREENHOE LICENCE REGISTERS 16th September 1794 & PS 19/5/1 & PS 19/5/2 (1926 - 1969)
MORGANS   
BULLARDS    
WATNEY MANN    
BRENT WALKER    
PUBMASTER    
FREEHOUSE by 1997
Licensees :
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WILLIAM BOWEN (?) 1794
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THOMAS GILL 1832 - 1851
EUGENE SPOONER 1854
ROBERT SPOONER 1856 - 1858
WILLIAM ETHERIDGE
Age 42
* 1861 - 10.1862
WILLIAM MOORE
& farmer of 85 acres
Age 38 in 1871
1863 - 1875
HENRY ROBERT FLOOD 1877 - 1879
Tuesday 7th January 1879 - Fine of 1s and 11s costs for having house open after 10:00pm on 24th December 1878. Cautioned as to the future.
EDMUND CROSS 1879 - 1882
CAROLINE CROSS (1881)
WILLIAM WOODS
Age 72 in 1891
17.03.1882 - 1894
JOHN CAMMACK MANN 1896
WILLIAM RALLISON 1900 - 1904
GEORGE J. JACOBS 1908
FRANK RANDS 1912 - 1915
Mrs A RANDS 1916
CECIL FRANK RANDS by 1922
ROBERT NICHOLS
Died 1945 - see opposite.
23.01.1933
BEATRICE LEAH NICHOLS 12.02.1940
WILLIAM GIBBS
Died Q4 1954 - age 66
24.04.1950
DANIEL HAYES 25.10.1954
OLIVER BOWERS 20.10.1958
FREDERICK CHARLES ROWLAND 28.12.1964
to at least 1969
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ERIC GARRATT here 03.1981
GILLIANJ McGUIFFIN here 04.1995
JOY HALSTEAD 1997 - 2002
STUART WARWICK 2002 - 2004
MICHAEL & CARON LEE by 10.2004
SANDRA INGLIS November 2012 - March 2013
Closed 2013 - Feb 2018
WENDY & RICHARD PYNE February 2018

Image provided by Helen McCallum - August 2000
Image by Helen McCallum - August 2000

The Live & Dead Farming Stock of Thomas Gill was Sold by Auction, Wednesday, 3rd December 1851 since he had given up his occupation.

The Household Furniture, Sow, Pigs and other Effects of Mr. William Etheridge were to be Sold by Auction Wednesday, 8th October 1862 since he was leaving at Michaelmas. (10th October, old style).

Mr. & Mrs. Nichols started a thrift club when they took over the house.
In the first year it raised £30. In 1949 about £540 was shared out.
Mr. Nichols served in the R.E.M.E. and in 1945, was taken ill whilst on leave, and died. When Mrs. Nichols left the house, she was presented with an eight-day clock by members of the Blue Lion Darts Club. She moved to Boreham Wood, which is where the new licensee, William Gibbs, came from.

It was reported 6th July 1951 that William Gibbs had decided that new dart-boards of horse-hair or bristle were too dear at £5 each and so had created one using coloured plasticine with a wire frame separating the double and treble rings in order to ensure there were no arguments. He had completed it about two weeks previously. For special games the board could be rolled out and trimmed, ready for play again.
Although then said to be considered the only such board in the country, there were certainly other houses in Norfolk using similar boards.

Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
175 barrels of beer
38 spirits (gallons)

Closed March 2013

House awarded Asset of Community Value status September 2013.

Plans to run as Community Pub announced August 2014.

Unfortunately the owner, October 2014, advised that change of use had been obtained and the building no longer legally a public house.

3rd November 2014 - newspaper reports that the property has been added to the Breckland Council Community Asset Register and the community has so far secured some £83,000 of the the £250,000 needed to purchase the freehold.

24th November 2014.
Building owner confirms that the property is " not for sale, is off the market  and is being leased as offices.
In any event the asking price had been £275,000 and not as reported in newspaper."

HOWEVER........

Re-opened as a public house Friday 23rd February 2018 with new owners.

Closed December 2021.

Plans to convert to a private dwelling announced March 2024.