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HAPPING HUNDRED FULL LICENCE -
TUNSTEAD & HAPPING REGISTERS 1794 &  PS 11/4/1 to PS 11/4/3 (1928 - 1974)
SAMUEL COSTERTON Beer brewer of Gt. Yarmouth to 1829
TRUNCH BREWERY Lot No. 11 in sale of Trunch Brewery Wednesday 25th August 1847
MORGANS  
STEWARD & PATTESON 01.10.1961
WATNEY MANN     
BRENT WALKER 03.1988
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Licensees :
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JOHN De CARLO 1794
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? 1807
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WILLIAM CHILVERS 1820
JOHN FROST
see opposite
November 1820
SUSANNA & GABRIEL THOMPSON 1824
JOHN FROST 1829
MARY ANN FROST 1836
EDWARD RUST 1845 - 1846
JOHN LEATHERDALE 
age 40 in 1851
1849 - 1851
HENRY SHEPHERD 1854 - 1856
EDWARD ADDY
(Married Miss Ann Burton of Hempstead at a ceremony in London 8th June 1854 - occupation then innkeeper)
1858
JAMES GRAPES
(James Grapes junior 1869 & 1872)
Age 36 in 1871 - farmer of 60 acres
*1861 - 1872
JAMES GEORGE 1875
EDWARD GEORGE
& carpenter
1877 - 1883
WILLIAM SHEPHERD GEORGE 1888 - 1892
RICHARD B GREEN 1896 - 1900
WALTER JAMES POPAY 1904
WILLIAM SHEPARD GEORGE 1908 - 1912
CHARLES GEORGE DOWNING 1916 to 1934
VERNON WILLIAM LeNEVE PAINTER
(Pointer in directory)
15.01.1934
ROBERT JOSEPH RYAN 01.02.1954
JOHN CHARLES SETCHELL 04.11.1957
to at least 1974
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The FALGATE - 26.05.1997
The Commissioners Meeting was held here 17th October 1807.

In April 1820 it was announced that Mr John Frost had taken this well established inn, previously in the occupation of Mr. Chilvers. This change seems not to have happened since on 20th May 1820, it was announced that the house was to be sold during the coming month, with Mr. Chilvers was still in occupation.
A sales notice followed advising that the property was to be sold by auction 10th June 1820. `Old established Inn with chaise house, stable, yard and garden - Possession given at Michaelmas next.' It appears that Mr. Frost did not arrive at the house until sometime after 1824.

4 November 1820 - FALLGATE INN, Potter Heigham John Frost begs leave to advise the public that he has taken the above old established inn, and humbly hopes, by a strict attention to their comfort and accommodation to merit patronage and support.
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For sale Wednesday 11 November 1829 owing to the bankruptcy of Samuel Costerton, beer brewer, dealer and chapman of Great Yarmouth. Property including stable, outhouses, yards, gardens, and appurtenances, containing in the whole by estimation half an acre, more or less, late in the occupation of John Frost.
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For sale by Trunch Brewery August 1847, a Copyhold property, Fine Certain, Land Tax 4s and Quit Rent 2d.

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John Leatherdale announced 22nd March 1849 that he had entered the Inn and his Opening Dinner would be on Monday 16th April.

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To Let May 1860 with possession at midsummer - Apply Messrs. Morgan, Brewers, Norwich.

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William Shepherd George paid £225 to his father, Henry George, 16th September 1889 for a parcel of land (4.5 acres) known as part of the Bridge Marsh - marked 413 on the map. Henry George had purchased part of the land 13th October 1855 from Jacob Neave, who had purchased it from Charles Rayley and Matthew Rayley.

In 1938 the sign read :-
`This gate hang high but hinder none - Refresh and pay and travel on'

Morgans sales 1960 were :-
Barrels of beer - 135
Spirits - 81 (gallons)



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
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From 'Harry Cox and his Friends' by Chris Heppa       (CH B2-1-10a onwards)

Singers known to frequent the pub c1896 - 1960: Harry Cox, William 'Bullets' Miller

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From Billy Durrants of Potter Heigham, quoted by Chris Heppa in A Life in Song         (CH B2-1-25b)

'Billy Durrants, a native of Potter Heigham, recalled to Paul Marsh how, as a young man, he would be in the Falgate Inn some Saturday nights in the 1930s, when Harry Cox and 'Bullets' Miller arrive . . . "We knew we were in for a proper evening then." Harry would go back onto the old songs; 'Bullets' would be dancing and singing, and Harry'd be playing his old squeezebox. They'd be up to all sorts of tricks - 'Bullet's would drink a pint and dance while Harry danced and played his old music [melodeon] above his head - all at the same time! They were good old evenings they were. We used to like to hear the old songs.'