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 WINBURGH ROAD		 MITFORD HUNDRED BEERHOUSE CLOSED by Sept 1915
MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 12/5/1 to 15/5/2 (1901 - 1975)
WILLIAM TAYLOR Conveyed from William Taylor to Samuel Bidwell as title deeds dated 14th October 1826
BIDWELLS Dereham Brewery - Property included Gig House and 16 acres as document dated 1890
Licensees :
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JOHN MANN 1836
WILLIAM BAKER
(farmer & beer retailer 1846)		 1845 - 1846
SAMUEL WOODHOUSE
age 36 in 1851 - farming 16 acres		 1850 - * 1851
ROBERT AMES / AMIS
as Robert Amos 1858 & 1869
as Robert Amis 1871
(Died 20th August 1890 - age 80. "For 21 years landlord of the Unicorn.")		 1854 - 1872
CHARLES CARY 1875 - (1877)
AUGUSTINE BROWN
(Wife Rebecca died 11th February 1890 - age 82)		 1875 - 1891
JOHN CHANNELL 1892
WILLIAM WYATT 1896 - 1900
ARTHUR EDWARD STEVENSON
Licence confirmed 30.11.1902		 31.10.1902
CHARLES BAXTER 29.11.1912
CHARLES STEVENSON 17.10.1913 - 1915


Augustine Brown (Licensee at the Unicorn from at least 1875 - 1891)  sold 1 acre of land or garden at Cemetery Road, East Dereham, to Charles Fenn, Innkeeper of the Fleece Hotel, for the sum of £125 as deed dated 11th October 1875.

Advertised To Let, November 1892 with Immediate Possession.
With about 15 acres of Land.
Apply T. S. Bidwell & Sutton, Thetford.


Offered To Let, April 1893.
Fully licensed with about 16 acres of Land
Possession at Michaelmas.

To Let, with Possession at Michaelmas, as advertised 18th October 1902. Apply T. S. Bidwell & Sutton, Thetford.


Referred for Compensation 26th March 1915
Confirmation of Closure by Compensation given 28th May 1915.
Licence extinct 25th October 1915.

On Tuesday 21st September 1915, owner Mr. Eustace E. Quilter, of Thetford, was awarded compensation of £150 14s for closure of the house. The tenant, Charles Stevenson to receive 10% of that award.


Curiously Charles Carey is named at the house in 1875 & 1877,
but Augustine Brown is named here in the 1875 gazetteer
and onwards from 1879.... (No mention in 1877)