Licensees :
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JOHN SMITH ( a civil and obliging man - Woodforde)	1779 - 1780
PHILIP BATCHELOR - wife ELIZABETH (announcement 27th June 1780 that they had taken over inn)	1780 - 1797
THOMAS STOCKING	1798 - 1799
SUSANNAH STOCKING	1812 -  *1814
SAMUEL ELLIS	1814 - 1821
SUSANNAH STOCKING	1822
ROBERT EMERSON	1826
JOHN LAKE Age 40 in 1841 (Married Miss Elizabeth Baker November 1827)	1829 - 1841
HENRY CRAWFORD & oyster merchant (as Henry Crofford 1856 & 1858)	1845 - 1861
WILLIAM SPARKES	1863 - 1864
Monday 19th October 1863 - Fine of £1 and 8s 6d costs for an assault on Mr. William Cooper, a grocer and draper. Also a fine of £1 with costs and damages amounting to 19s 3d, for damaging a clock at Mr. coopers house.
Licence renewal refused 5th September 1864 due to manner of running house.
THOMAS KEMP	1864 - 1865
JOSEPH PYMAN	1869
MATTHEW MORTERS	*1871 - 1872
HORATIO HINSON junior & master mariner	1875 - 1877
WILLIAM JACKSON & pork butcher Died 1889	1879 - 1889
Mrs RACHEL JACKSON & pork butcher	02.09.1889 - 1900
ROBERT WILLIAM JACKSON	by 1903

Visited by Parson Woodforde in May 1779 and again in September 1787 when he had a snack of bread, cheese and porter.

All the Household Furniture and Stock in Trade of John Smith were to be sold, without reserve, Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th June 1780. Also to be sold were a neat Post-chaise, new painted, six Riding and Chaise Horses with Saddles and Harness, &c.

All persons indebted to John Smith, late of the Standard Inn were required to send their Account as notice dated 28th September 1780.

For Sale by Private Contract, November, 1826.
With Brew-house, Granary, Stables, and other buildings, Yards and Garden.
A Coal-house and Warehouse on the Quay and a Tackle-house, late in the occupation of the Commissioners of Customs, also included in the transaction.

The licence application for William Sparkes was refused at the North Greenhoe Annual licensing meeting of 5th September 1864.
Licence granted to T. Kemp on appeal.

Advertised September 1865 - To Let.
With occupation from Michaelmas.
Apply Edward Horsley, Brewery, Fakenham.

For Sale by Auction Wednesday 11th October 1871 - Freehold. One of thirteen licensed house to be sold.

Advertised for sale 1877
Sold by auction at the Crown Hotel, Wednesday July 29th 1903.
Then in the occupation of Messrs. Morgan & Co. at the low yearly rent of £12. The house was purchased by Howard, apparently on behalf of Loynes & Son. However the Licence Registers give Bullards as the owners in 1903 to 1904, so it seems that Loynes & Son soon sold the property on. (Did Bullards buy the property in order to close it down and thwart their rivals Morgans & Co ?)
In 1903 the property is described as situate in a good position for Trade, containing ` Excellent Cellarage, Large Clubroom, Sitting-room, Bar Parlour, and Smoke rooms, Kitchen &c. ; also Five Bedrooms and Attics. There is a large Yard in which there are capital Stables, Cart Shed, Outhouses and Offices, Pump and Well of excellent Water.

Licence not renewed c1904.

Robert Jackson is at the WAGGON & HORSES from November 1904