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        | Licensees : |  
        | THOMAS THOMPSON age 56 in 1851
 | 1845 - 1852 |  
        | Fine of 2s 6d and costs 
		of 7s 6d on Saturday 23rd October 1852 for trading on the morning of 
		divine service. |  
        | THOMAS FOX | * 1854 - *
          1858 |  
        | SAMUEL D. 
		WITTICKS | 1861 |  
        | THOMAS FOX | 1863 |  
        | SAMUEL 
		WITTICKS | 1864 |  
        | COMFORT NORMAN | 1865 |  
        | ROBERT POTTER | * 1868 - * 1881 |  
        | Mrs MARY
          POTTER | * 1883 |  
        | RICHARD GRIMES | 1888 |  
        | MATTHIAS WINEARLS | 1890 - 1893 |  
        | GEORGE HUDSON | 1894 - 1895 |  
        | JOHN LITTLEPROUD | 1896 - 1915 |  
        | GEORGE JENNESS | by 1916 |  
        | JAMES EDWARD BLOWERS | 04.03.19(?)5 (check date)
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        | BELGIUM FRANCIS BENNETT Licence confirmed 06.12.1954
 | 08.11.1954 |  
        | REGINALD NORMAN FEEK (brewery representative)
 | 22.08.1960 |  | Built c1845
 Lot No. 34 in sale by auction 8th & 9th September 1847 by the trustees
    of the late John Morse Esq..The property described as newly built as a beerhouse and included :-
 Large garden, Stable, Gig House and other outbuildings. Copyhold to the Manor of Sporle.
 
 Sales for final year of trading ....468 pints !<That is equivalent one regular customer having a 
	pint a day, except perhaps on Saturdays and Sundays when two pints were 
	downed - maybe the landlord drowning his sorrows?>
 Licence held by S&P after closure but not renewed 10th February 1964.
 
    
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