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Licensees : |
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| JOHN WILSON |
1729 |
| - |
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| GEORGE DAVY |
1791 |
| - |
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| GEORGE CRONSHEY |
1822 - 1830 |
WILLIAM JOHNSON
age 47 in 1851 |
1836 - 1851 |
| JOHN PLUMPTON |
1854 |
| MARY ANN PLUMPTON |
1856 |
| Mrs ANN PLUMPTON |
1858 |
| HENRY ELLIS |
1861 |
| Warned by the magistrates at
the Annual Licensing Day, Monday 26th August 1861, to keep
an orderly house |
WILLIAM MANN
Age 53 in 1871 |
by 10.1862 - 1883 |
| Mrs SARAH ANN VINCENT |
1888 - 1891 |
| GEORGE HENRY REYNOLDS |
1892 - 1896 |
| MARIA REYNOLDS |
1898 |
| HENRY REYNOLDS |
1900 |
| Mrs MARIA REYNOLDS |
1904 |
| ..... REYNOLDS |
1907 |
| CHARLES HENRY PEACOCK |
1908 - 1909 |
| WILLIAM FRANCIS |
1912 |
| ROBERT TOWNSHEND HOWELL |
by 1916 |
| ERNEST JOSIAH MARKILLIE |
11.11.1926 |
| MILDRED HARRIET MARKILLIE |
08.01.1928 |
| JOHN NUDD TRETT |
09.07.1931 |
NEVILLE HILLYARD BISHOP
Died 31st December 1967 |
28.11.1957 |
JEAN BISHOP
Went to Thomas Paine Hotel. |
1967 - 1973 |
| ALAIN JICKEL manager |
1975 |
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| STUART & SUE PATERSON |
by December 1979 |
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| ROBIN TWIGGE |
by 2005 |
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c1907
October 1729 : A Cock Match will be fought on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday the first, second and third days of December next between the
Right Honourable Thomas Lord Lovell of Holkham in the County of Norfolk
and John Thurston Esq. of Hoxon in the county of Suffolk, to show thirty
one cocks on aside for Five Guineas a Battle and Fifty Guineas the odd
Battle at the House of Mr John Wilson at the ANCHOR in
Thetford. where all Gentlemen will meet with good Accommodation and a
hearty welcome.
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All the Household Furniture, an elegant
Whitechapel and Pony Dog Carts, 2 sets of Silver-mounted Gig Harness,
Crimean Marquee, Musical instruments, and other Effects of Mr. Henry
Ellis, were to be Sold by Auction, Monday 23rd September 1861, since he
was removing to a distance.
Valued 25.07.1889 at £1260 with a further £1850 for the adjoining
maltings and coal yard.
One of only 18 Norfolk public houses recommended by the Egon Ronay pub
guide of 1969.
Recommended in D. A. Yates 1969 and 1970 guides:-
"AA, RAC and Egon Ronay.
Excellent cuisine under the supervision of Mrs. Jean Bishop.
Electric blankets in all beds"
Quality of the beer, especially the Castle Bitter,
was commended when CAMRA representatives visited in late 1979.......
....... consequently appeared in next Good Beer Guide.
Closed August 2006
Licence extinct 16th April 2007.
Demolished December 2012
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