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EYNESFORD HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED 1909
Eynesford Licence Registers PS/3/4/1 - PS/3/4/5 (c1880 - 1929)
SAMUEL HOWES   
LACONS  
Licensees :
-  
CHARLES HARVEY
Age 70 in 1841
1830 - 1854
SAMUEL HOWES
& blacksmith
by 1856
CHARLES WILLIAM WILKINS 10.06.1895
WILLIAM ROBERT HALL 21.10.1901
DAVID JAMES WEBSTER 17.10.1904
HERBERT WILLIAM LONG 19.06.1905
WALTER HENRY ENGLAND
see below
26.02.1906
ROBERT WATERSON 09.09.1907
 EDWARD MATTHEWS
(as Kelly's directory - not in licence registers)
1908
JAMES BANHAM 
(as Licence Register)
07.1908



Walter Henry England, late of the Lord Nelson, Hackford, was examined for bankruptcy, April 1908. He had Gross Liabilities of £88 14s 1d with a deficiency of £74 17s 7d.
He had first been a compositor and then, for 10 years, a Collector for the Prudential. They gave him £30 to take on the Lord Nelson. However he had not been successful and had gone to Ipswich as a compositor.
There he lost his wife and returned to Norwich where he tried making a living as a commission agent. He had also tried running a fried fish and chip shop.






As the NELSONS HEAD in Pigot's 1830 directory

In 1908 Lacons guaranteed not to oppose closure by Compensation during the following year.
Licence renewal granted provisionally 1909, to be referred to the Compensation Authority at the General Licensing Meeting.

Licence refused at Compensation Authority meetings of 21st and 23rd June 1909.
Reported as an alehouse, owned by E. Lacon & Co. and run by licensee James Banham.

At the meeting of the Norfolk Licensing Committee, held Wednesday 15th December 1909, it was reported by Messrs. Lacon that the house had been sold. Average trade over the previous 5 years had been 72 barrels of beer and 20 gallons of spirits.
£425 compensation payment was granted.


Not in Licence Register 1910.