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 EAST END		 NORTH GREENHOE HUNDRED BEERHOUSE
later FULL LICENCE		 CLOSED c1996
NORTH GREENHOE LICENCE REGISTERS PS 27/8/1 to PS 27/8/2 (1903 - 1975)
MILES EDWARD PALMER 1863 - 1881
BULLARDS from 1881
WATNEY MANN 11.04.1967
CHEF & BREWER c1988
Licensees :
MILES EDWARD PALMER
& ships carpenter		 1863 - 1881
MARY PALMER 1881
JAMES ELLENDER
& boat builder
(James ELEANER according to Kelly, ELENER according to White)		 1883 - *1888
WILLIAM WATSON by 1890
FREDERICK WILLIAM WATERSON 05.12.1910
RICHARD WHITTAKER
wife Martha		 04.11.1912
CHARLES T. HANNANT 05.07.1948
ROBERT MARSHALL TUCK 08.09.1969
to 1987
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Licensee (1912 - 1948) Richard Whittaker  had joined the Navy in 1898 serving most of his time in East India and China. He was invalided out in 1910 and took on the Shipwrights two years later.
The SHIPWRIGHTS ARMS - Wells
c1965

A cottage purchased by Miles Palmer in 1861 and converted to a public house by 1863.

Full licence granted 1st February 1960

Described in 1976 as "a Watney house, near the whelk boiling sheds, a real waterman's pub ".

1985

Application made December 1995 to convert into 4 dwellings and to demolish lean-to and outbuildings.
(Listed building and Conservation Area)

Plans announced 7th March 1996 to convert into 4 private dwellings.

 

Memories collected by Chris Holderness of Rig-a-Jig-Jig for the East Anglian Traditional Musical Trust.
The CH numbers refer to Chris's Archive on eatmt.org.
 

From a radio broadcast by John Seymour about sailing down the east coast, early 1960s. (CH B1-1-5)

'That evening we strolled along to the Shipwright's Arms and Alan [Waller] played the fiddle, at which he is very good, and chaps got up and step danced and people sang, and we ate great fistfuls of cockles that somebody brought in. We went to bed that night feeling that Wells is a glorious place.'