| Licensees : |
MUCKY PORTER
(Silver Fleece) |
c1640 - 1670 |
| - |
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| - |
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EDWARD
BANHAM
(Bell) |
1794 |
| - |
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WILLIAM PECKETT
age 60 in 1861
& farmer 65 acres
Died 15th September 1862
(Age 70 according to newspaper obituary) |
1836 - 1862
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Mrs MARY PECKETT
Age 80 in 1871
Died May 1872 - age 82 |
1863 - 1871 |
| - |
1875 |
JOHN PORTER
& shoemaker |
1877 - 1896 |
| GEORGE HARTLEY |
1900 - 1907 |
Monday, 10th June 1907 - Fine of 9s,
including costs for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart at 10:15
pm on 17th May. He had been stopped by P.c. Baker since he had been
proceeding at a gallop, at the rate of 15 or 16 miles per hour.
" I could not be going at that pace, the mare is 15 years old, and the
utmost it could do was 13 miles per hour". |
| ARTHUR BALL |
06.01.1908 |
| FRANCIS GEORGE VALE |
13.10.1913 |
| THOMAS VALE |
by 1916 |
| JOHN YOUNGS |
07.04.1924 |
| HARRY PORTER |
04.01.1937 |
| KENNETH WILLIAM HUDSON |
07.02.1944 |
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|
LES &
MAY CROWTHER
(Les died 1979, May died in 1992) |
c1950 -
c1960 |
| LAURIE
PORTER |
to 1976 |
| PAM & ANTHONY TREVOR PYWELL |
12.1976 - 1982 |
| DEREK & LYNN STARR |
02.1983 |
| STAN & VAL GARRETT |
24.10.1985 - 05.1988+ |
| ANGIE CONNOLLY |
by 08.1994 |
| Closed December 1996 for 18 months |
SHANE LEMAN &
TRACEY ARNOLD |
June 1998 |
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| SEAN & JAMES BUTLER-WHYMAN |
by 2013 |
1966 - Signed C. B. Warren.
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c1905
November 1986
Formerly the SILVER FLEECE.
It is reputed that during the Civil War, Mucky Porter guided King Charles
I through the fens and was rewarded with a bag of gold.
Later King Charles II is said to have further rewarded him with several
acres of land
which became known as the Methwold Severals.
The
BELL in 1794 & 1836
Penny In The Hole once played here but out of fashion by 1950's.
Local rules were that 6 players would each have 2 pennies.
The first to score 2 in the hole would win the shilling.
Grand Metropolitan Estates applied March 1991 to
develop land to the rear of the Old White Bell, for construction of four
dwellings and double garages. Application ref. 2/91/0474/O.
October 1993 - Grand Met again applied to develop the land behind the Old
White Bell to erect four dwellings and garages. Application ref.
2/93/1438/O
July 1996 - Phoenix Inns applied for permission to convert the Old White
Bell into a private dwelling and to demolish extensions in order allow the
building of two new homes.
Closed December 1996 and boarded up until reopening June
1998.
Closed ......
Reopened Saturday 27th October 2001
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