| Licensees : |
| - |
|
| JOHN PEARSON |
1789 |
| THOMAS
PEARSON |
1794 |
| - |
|
| JAMES &
MARY PEARSON |
*1813 - 1819 |
| JAMES &
SARAH QUANTRILL |
*1820 - *1834 |
| GEORGE QUANTRILL |
1836 - 1846 |
JAMES QUANTRILL
age 56 in 1851 |
1851 - 1864 |
| Wednesday 31st August 1864 - Fine of
5s and 11s costs for having six false measures in use on 8th August. His
second offence. |
GEORGE HILL
also as George Hitt 1865, 1869 & 1872 |
1865 - 1873 |
Mr. Shearing
See opposite. |
to 08 1873 |
| EDWARD
GASKIN |
25.08.1873 - 1875 |
| HENRY FAIRCHILD |
1877 - 1888 |
| ROBERT OLDFIELD |
1890 - 1904 |
| WILLIAM WATSON |
1908 |
| ALFRED JOLLEY |
1912 - 1915 |
| JAMES GRAY |
1916 |
| JOHN LEONARD KADWILL |
1922 |
| GEORGE MARTIN |
by 1925 |
| DOUGLAS ARTHUR OLIVER BAKER |
07.10.1942 |
Maria, daughter of James & Mary Pearson, late Eagle (Innkeeper)
was baptized 14th February 1813.
Their son John was baptized 12th November 1815.
Emily, daughter of James & Sarah Quantrel / Quantrill, late Lockheed
or Lockard (1822, 1825, 1827) or Locket (1824)
was baptized 25th December 1820. No occupation recorded.
Subsequent baptisms were:-
3rd November 1822 (Mary)
13th June 1824 (Caroline)
27th November 1825 (Eliza)
15th April 1827 (Louise)
1828 (Elizabeth)
1833 (Hannah)
1834 (James)
The occupation for James is given as Labourer in 1827 but at all other
times as Publican.
(Thanks to Honor Jones)
|
James Pearson, late of Stanford Cock, appeared before the magistrates 27th January 1820 accused of committing an act whereby he had forfeited his bond
in not keeping an orderly house. After a long hearing the charge was not
established.
Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.
On Wednesday 2nd April 1873, William Clark of Saham Toney, was charged of
stealing a half pint drinking glass, the property of George Hill, on 24th
July 1872. Clarke had been arrested on the morning of 25th July 1872, along
with another person and the handcuffed pair were left in the care of the
parish constable, Jonathan Cawston. Whilst the arresting officer, P.C.
Goldsmith, went for a conveyance to take them to the lock-up, the pair
escaped, still in handcuffs. A short time before the hearing in April 1873,
Clark had given himself up to P.C. Goldsmith and pleaded guilty. He was
committed for seven days.
On Monday 25th August 1873, Edward Gaskin applied to take on the licence.
Mr. Shearing, the executor of the late Mr. G. Hill was then in occupation.
Although Superintendent Lambley raised an objection, the licence was granted.
Henry Fairchild is given 1877, at the
FOWL INN
Valued at £850 25th July 1889
At the Entertainment held in the club room here on the evening of Monday 4th
March 1895, in aid of the fund for the relief of the poor and unemployed,
the programme included the singing of :-
Riding on a load of hay,
Cockles and mussels,
The bashful maiden,
Lum Tum,
It is a pity to waste it,
Where is the harm if she met him,
Gipsy's warning,
The tavern in this town,
Won't you buy my pretty flowers,
Two little girls in blue,
Etc, Etc.,
and God save the Queen.
Whole village forcibly evacuated in 1942 to allow formation of battle
training area.
Licence ``In suspense '' 1942
Licence declared as lapsed at the Methwold Licensing Meeting of February
1955. |
