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Black Horse
115 HEIGHAM STREET
HEIGHAM CAUSEWAY
HEIGHAM FULL LICENCE CLOSED 13.05.1972
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/1 to 1/8/4 (1867 - 1965)
YOUNGS & Co  
BULLARDS 1873
WATNEY MANN  
Licensees :
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JOHN KERRY
(Full licence awarded 30th August 1861 - previously operating as a beerhouse)
1861
DENNIS RANSOME 24.06.1862
WILLIAM PETER FARROW 28.01.1872
Convicted 19.01.1882 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine 2/6d plus 7/- costs
GEORGE LEARNER 09.02.1886
ARTHUR WILLIAM FURZE 21.06.1921
ROBERT WILLIAM WHITE
(Robert White junior 1933)
21.10.1930
EMILY MAUD WHITE 08.02.1944
BENJAMIN FRED BIRD 06.04.1944
EDWARD JAMES RUSSEN 02.05.1944
ARTHUR RUSSEN 04.06.1946
ERNEST HOWARD 13.02.1962

Black Horse, Heigham - 1912
1912

Located on the South side of Heigham Street, on the Eastern corner of Devonshire Street.

Address of Heigham Causeway 1867 & 1879

Number 99 Heigham Street in 1892.
First noted as 115 Heigham Street in 1901.

Damaged by bombing during the nights of 27th - 29th April 1942.

Closed by Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd 13th May 1972 and demolished the following year.

 

Ernest Howard, the last licensee, was known as the Singing Landlord.
He had sung at the Hippodrome as a young lad.
In the 1960's he entertained his customers with the accompaniment of husband and wife duo of Arnie (drums) and Stella (piano).

 

  In 1961 the BYSTANDERS FILM CLUB commenced a survey of Norwich public houses.
Unfortunately, by 1968 the challenge remained unfinished and Watney Mann had taken over the local breweries....Toilet facilities (Conveniences) were rated on cleanliness and general standard.
This house was rated as follows:-
 
 
Bullards No Draught Cider
Darts Conveniences ?
   
Tile-top tables.
Photo of Licensed Victuallers Defence League, Folkestone 1931.
Tinted photo of the Canaries, 1907-08.
Beautifully stained "panelling" ( and walls ).