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BLUE BOAR   SPROWSTON  Index Blue Boar 259 WROXHAM ROAD NR7 8RL TAVERHAM HUNDRED FULL LICENCE tel : 01603 426802 BLOFIELD, TAVERHAM & WALSHAM REGISTERS taken September 1789 and September 1794 and TAVERHAM LICENCE REGISTER PS 9/8/1 to PS 9/8/3 (31 Aug 1872 - 1957) note:1887 to 1903 missing transferred to NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER 09.11.1907 - PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/4 (cover 1867 to 1965) St MARTINS BREWERY Leasehold property for sale as advertised 11th October 1794 - Lot No 30 FREEHOUSE Owner Clement William Unthank according to 1832 Register of Electors First supplied by Steward & Patteson during the year 1848 to 1849 YOUNGS, CRAWSHAY & YOUNGS by 1888 (Recorded 17.03.1888 as the property of Charles Crawshay) BULLARDS    WATNEY MANN    ENTERPRISE INNS

Licensees : -   WILLIAM CAPENDELL here May 1781 WILLIAM KINGSBOROUGH by 1789 to 1792     THOMAS OLYOTT (Ollyett 1794) Died 1st January 1843 - age 80 (Olgate in newspaper report) 1794 - 18?? THOMAS HOLGATE according to Pigot (Error for T. Olyott?) 1839 THOMAS OLYOTT age 50 in 1851 & farrier 1858 1842 - 1865 HANNAH OLYOTT 1868 RODERICK ELPHINSTONE & nurseryman by 1869 WILLIAM SANDELL 24.03.1876 HANNAH SANDELL 29.07.1876 HENRY FREDERICK CHAPMAN 12.10.1878 JAMES CHAPMAN 13.12.1879 JOHN ROBERT DESBOROUGH 04.06.1904 CHARLES HENRY HARTLEY 05.01.1918 ALICE EDITH HARTLEY 07.07.1923 JOHN WILLIAM BLYTH 06.10.1923 8th June 1926 - Fine of £5 and costs for selling intoxicating liquor during prohibited hours on 20th May 1926. ALBERT ERNEST FOX 10.05.1947 ETHEL MILDRED FOX 04.03.1950 FRANK  BRITT 10.04.1958 DAVID BRIAN THOMAS TURNBULL 20.03.1979  - June 2017 -

1996 Original house built 1750. Recorded as the BLUE BOOR in Register of Blofield, Taverham & Walsham Hundred licensed houses taken 9th September 1789. It was announced 8th December 1792 that Mr. W. Kingsborough had left the Blue Boar and was then at the Easton Dog. Norfolk Chronicle 2nd November 1816. Thursday night last two men with their carts were returning from Hoveton with goods which had been bought at the late Mt Aufrere's auction, when they stopped at Sprowston Blue Boar to get a pot of beer, when some person taking advantage of their absence, stole from off the carts two hampers of glass and a brown great coat, in the pocket of which were two snuff-boxes, one silver, the other tortoise-shell with which they got clear off. ~ Shown on Bryant's 1826 map. ~ For Sale by Auction, Saturday 14th June 1934. With Barn, Stable and other Offices, Bowling Green, and too pieces of arable land adjoining; the whole containing 2A. 2R. 1P. ~ Rebuilt 1953 further back from the road. Offering hotel accommodation by 2001

See page 85 of Norwich In Old Postcards, Volume 3
- First published 1990