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ANGEL HOTEL NORTH WALSHAM Index
MARKET STREET TUNSTEAD HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED DECEMBER 1986
TUNSTEAD & HAPPING LICENCE REGISTERS taken 15th September 1794 and  PS 11/4/1 to 11/4/3 (Feb 1928 to Feb 1974)
COLTISHALL BREWERY Lot No. 76 in sale by auction 14th  - 17th September 1841 (£710)
Mr. G. T. PLUMBLY from September 1841
BULLARDS  
WATNEY MANN Closed 1986 "after 400 years"
Licensees :
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ROBERT WELLS by 1794 - 12.1804
Miss MARY WELLS
(Married hair dresser Robert Plumbly Monday 14th October 1805)
1805
Robert & MARY PLUMBLY
( Mary Plumbly died December 1813 - age 30)
1806 - 1813
ROBERT PLUMBLY
Married Sarah Wills 27th February 1815
Robert Plumbly died March 1828 - age 50
1814 - 1828
SARAH PLUMBLY 1830 - 1836
GEORGE THOMAS PLUMBLY
age 35 in 1851
1839 - 1861
SAMUEL TYLER 1863 - 1865
GEORGE THOMAS PLUMBLY
Age 55 in 1871
1868 - 1875
JOHN CALVER FIRMIN 1877 - 1883
HORACE BLOOMFIELD GREEN
according to Kelly 1883
1883 - 1884
HORACE BLOOMFIELD 1888
EDWARD JAMES MORRIS
Age 32 in 1871
May 1889 - 1891
FREDERICK OCKELFORD
(Reported 1892 as Dellford)
16.02.1892 - 1896
EDWIN JAMES COOK
Died 1921, age 66 "Keeper of the Angel"
1900 - 1921
ROBERT CLARK by 1922
MAJOR H. D. ROBERTS 15.09.1930
WINIFRED AGNES ROBERTS 02.03.1931
DOUGLAS ARTHUR OLIVER BAKER
Brewery representative
14.09.1931
HENRY GEORGE QUILTER 12.10.1931
BENJAMIN FRED BIRD 03.10.1938
CHARLES THEODORE VACHELL 31.10.1938
MAUDE ELSIE VACHELL 06.02.1939
GEORGE HENRY WHEELDON 06.03.1939
HUGH ALBERT MIDLANE 10.05.1943
ERIC STANLEY BERRY 05.04.1948
EVELYN BERRY 02.02.1953
JOHN LOWTHER 07.12.1953
ERNEST JAMES CHAPMAN
Died 23rd November 1977
01.07.1957
- 1977
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Angel c1920
c1920
The Angel, North Walsham, 1860
1860

Reputed to date back to early 1600's

A stone from the collapsed church tower was used as a mounting block.

For Sale by Auction Thursday, 21st February 1805.
The Public Inn called the Angel, in the occupation of the late Mr. Robert Wells, deceased, and "now his Executors".
Possession at Michaelmas.

Lot no. 76 in sale by auction 14th to 17th September 1841 of the Coltishall Brewery. Copyhold sold to the tenant, Mr. Plumbly, for the sum of £710.

Proprietor George Plumbly announced February 1853, that the property, having been rebuilt two years previously, provided Commercial, Sleeping and Sitting-rooms superior to any in the neighbourhood.

25th May 1889 - Mr. E. J. Morris informed his Friends and the Public that he had opened the well-known house and looked forward to their Patronage.
Good Bowling Green and Billiard Room.

George Edwards founded the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Smallholders Union at a meeting held here July 1906.
(Dates of the meeting vary from 6th to 26th July 1906)
This later became the National Union of Agricultural Workers.

Henry Quilter, licensee from 1931 to 1938 had served with the 34th Division in France, surviving the battles of the Somme in WW1. From 1917 he served in British, German and Portuguese East Africa.
As a sportsman he had played cricket for Suffolk, Ipswich and East Suffolk. He had been captain of the Cambridge County (EBA) Bowls team, and played for Suffolk County, East Anglian and Midland Federation teams. He twice captained the Newmarket golf Club. He was a semi-finalist in the All-England Amateur Snooker championship and had captained the Newmarket Tennis Club. He was a member of the Newmarket Swimming Club polo team that won the East Anglian Championship and Cockran's Charity Cup in the same year. As a rower he won the Ipswich Petrol Rowing Club Sculls and was vice-captain of the Club.

Held a Market Day extension for
Thursday afternoons - 2:30pm to 4:30pm

Site became Angel Court.
The leaded glass door awning being reused.

The Angel, North Walsham - Shortly after closure.
1989