| Licensees : |
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| RICHARD BOTWRIGHT |
1828 |
| CHARLES SHEPPARD |
1836 |
| SAMUEL PEARCE |
1845 - 1846 |
JAMES CATCHPOLE
age 38 in 1851 |
1851 - 1879 |
| HENRY E. WRAGG |
1881 - 1883 |
| Friday 17th June 1881 - Fine of £1 and
12s costs for keeping his house open at illegal hours on Sunday 5th
June. The three men found drinking in the house were each fined 5s and
costs. |
JAMES CORKE
(also as James Cork) |
1888 - 1900 |
GEORGE MICKLEBURGH
(Died Monday evening 12th November 1923 - Age 70) |
1904 - 1908 |
| Friday 2nd April 1909 - Fine of £1
and £1 9s 6d costs for causing two pigs to be cruelly mis-treated
between 1st and 9th March. |
WALTER THURLOW
(Died March 1954 - age 84. Said to have been here about 16 years) |
1912 - 1925 |
| Mrs MABEL LINDER |
1929 |
JAMES GOODWIN
(here about 6 years)
(Age 88 in 1952) |
by 1932 |
JOHN SAMUEL HURRY
(Jack Hurry - died 1962) |
by 1937 - 1962 |
| Mrs. HELEN JEAN HURRY |
14.06.1962 - 06.1963 |
WILLIAM NEWBY
(Bill) |
13.06.1963 - 1981 |
| DORIS NEWBY |
1981 - to October 1982 |
| Closed 1983 |
| GRAHAM & DIANE KERRY |
by 07.1986 - 1992 |
JOHN HYDE &
HEATHER McMAHON |
03.03.1993 |
JOHN HYDE &
DEBBIE PLEASANTS |
January 2016 |
| - |
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| Closed early 2017 |
| RAY PAUL & SARAH CAMPBELL-JONES |
by November 2017 |
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On the night of Wednesday 15th February
1843, Edward Sandy, a tailor, who had completed a pledge to
be teetotal for a year and a day, enjoyed two pints of beer
at the Half Moon. Feeling intoxicated, he left, and in the
darkness, fell into a deep ditch. Nearly torn to
pieces by the thorns, he was discovered dead the following
morning near Langmere, in the parish of Dickleburgh. |
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Lot No. XVII in the sale of Harleston Brewery
properties 3rd July 1828.
In occupation of Richard Botwright.
A sale of properties was held here 2nd June 1835.
Transferred to Dickleburgh Parish under the Norfolk Country Review Order of 01.04.1935.
Under the jurisdiction of Diss Petty Sessions from then.
On Wednesday 1st March 1843, E. Sandy, a tailor from Brockdish, celebrated
the completion of his twelve month tee-totaller pledge by drinking two pints
of beer at the Half Moon. Upon leaving he was so intoxicated that he fell
into a ditch and was much torn and lacerated by the briars and thorns. He
was discovered dead the following morning, lying in the road at Langmere,
Dickleburgh.
According to the Diss Express of 26th December 1947, there was great
excitement in the Half Moon when a bull entered the public bar.
House closed from November 1982 upon the retirement of landlady Doris
Newby.
160 Lots of Household Furniture and Effects, the property of Mrs. H. J.
Hurry were to be Sold By Auction, Saturday, 11th May 1963, since she was
moving.
A Polling Station operated here and in April 1963, despite the rain, 37
people registered their vote.
It is reported that following closure, in 1983, the fixtures & fittings
were removed from the premises "to prevent vandalism".....and then burnt in the car
park. Norwich Brewery refusing to sell the property as a Free House and only
offering the property to the village as a licensed club or community center
at a rent of £58 per week.
De-licensed 1984
Reopened as a freehouse.
1995
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