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HIGH STREET SMITHDON HUNDRED FULL LICENCE
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SMITHDON REGISTER taken 15th September 1794 & SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTERS PS 13/4/1 & 2 (1949 to 1975)
Le STRANGE of Hunstanton
FRANK ERNEST CAMERON COX of the JOLLY SAILORS , Brancaster from 03.03.1952
JOHN ALEXANDER da COSTA BENN of the COMPASSES from 01.03.1956
ETHEL MARJORIE MacQUARRIE of the COMPASSES c1964
BARBARA CATHERINE EATON 07.08.1972
Licensees :
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ROBERT CHAPMAN 1780 - 1790
THOMAS CHAPMAN 1794
THOMAS CADAMAN
Age 77 in 1841
(Died Q2 1853)		 1836 - 1845
ANNE WILLOUGHBY here 09.1845
WILLIAM CLARK
& brewer
(also as Clarke)
Died Q2 1879 - age 72		 1850 - 1879
WILLIAM CLARK
& brewer
Died September 1919 - age 73		 1879 - *1919
WILLIAM CRANE CLARK
(Died December 1929 - age 47)		 *1919 - 1922
WILLIAM HENRY HERRING
Died March 1937		 1922 - 1933
Found drunk, on two occasions in May 1927, Mr. Herring had been fined 10s. He was fined a further 10s when again found drunk, at a later date. On ten occasions between May 1927 and December 1928 he had been found "Unfit to be in charge of a public House". In February 1929, it was heard that Mr. Herring had been discharged from the army in 1919 and whilst in service had been gassed and shell-shocked. In spite of the Police objections, with Mr. Herring saying he had given up drink, the licence was renewed, with a caution.
Mrs GERTRUDE HERRING
(remarried William Claxton Q1 1939)		 1937 - 1939
Mrs GERTRUDE CLAXTON from 1939
FRANK ERNEST CAMERON COX
(Died September 1978 - age 72)		 11.02.1952
JOHN ALEXANDER da COSTA BENN
(Died January 2002 - age abt 91)		 29.08.1955
A. St JOHN PRICE 28.04.1958
HARRY THOMAS WILLIAM BURDON 13.10.1958
MARY McNIELL 28.05.1962
MARY EADIE (remarried) 28.06.1962
ETHEL MARJORIE MacQUARRIE 13.04.1964
BARBARA CATHERINE EATON 07.08.1972



Dates from 17thC

Labourer Charles Granger (18) was charged 29th September 1845 of assaulting landlady Anne Willoughby on the night of 20th September. He paid 6s 6d costs and was discharged.
(James Willoughby is given as a butcher in 1845 and not mentioned in 1846. Note that the 1846 trades directory still gives Thomas Cadaman as licensee - perhaps out of date information?)
Showing a Whitbread sign in 1967

Renamed the GIN TRAP by 1975