Licensees :
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HENRY NOBBS	1851
EDWARD NOBBS	1855 - 1856
HENRY NOBBS (Beerhouse at 13 Coslany Street 1888)	25.12.1857 - 1888
FREDERICK BECKETT	1896 - 1900
JAMES ALBERT GOODA	07.05.1901

Previously known as the
CHEQUERS or WHITE CHEQUERS
and often referred as such after becoming the
BREWERS ARMS. 
(as referenced 1851, 1886 and 1894)

Edward Nobbs applied for a (full) licence 28th August 1855 - Application refused.

(Henry Nobbs is given at the Chequers in 1883
but at an un-named beerhouse in 1888.
James Gooda is listed at the Chequers in 1904
but at the Brewers Arms in the Licence Registers)

At the 1906 Licensing Sessions the premises were said to be small and unsuitable. Consisting of only one room, partitioned off and difficult to supervise. The tenant was in the iron trade and left his wife to run the premises during the daytime. There were 18 other licensed houses within 200 yards.