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Cherry Tree
43 PITT STREET St. GEORGE COLEGATE FULL LICENCE See GOLDEN SOVEREIGN
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/4 (1867 - 1965)
WESTONS Sold To Youngs & Co at auction Thursday 18th August 1864
YOUNGS & Co   
BULLARDS 1958
WATNEY MANN    
NORWICH BREWERY  
Licensees :
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THOMAS FABB 1739
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ROBERT KENT
woolcomber		 1760 - 1762
JAMES THAXTER
worsted weaver		 1763 - 1764
JAMES BULLARD 1803
JOHN FLOOD
carpenter		 1806 -1807
ROBERT BILLING 1822
WILLIAM HARDY
age 44 in 1851
& wood sawyer
(MARY ANN HARDY given in 1851 census)		 1830 - 1856
JOHN NEWMAN by 1858
JESSE WILLIAM SPINKS 05.08.1879
CHARLES NEWMAN 10.10.1879
GEORGE RICHARD MACKLEY 13.10.1903
FREDERICK TOWNER 07.02.1906
GEORGE ROBERT BUSSEY 19.07.1910
WILLIAM PARSONS 05.04.1933
ERNEST DAVID BEALES 12.02.1946
ELIZABETH MAY BEALES 05.04.1947
JOHN ARTHUR CLARKE 23.08.1949
SIDNEY WALTER SMITH 06.04.1955
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH GLADWELL 19.08.1958
EDWIN ROBERT WOOD 29.12.1959
CYRIL GEORGE TURNER 01.01.1963
STANLEY WALTER RUSSELL EDWARDS 26.11.1963

Cherry Tree 1967
1967

On Monday 30th July 1739 an extraordinary display of July Flowers.... would be shown at Mr. Fabb's, the Cherry Tree, St. George's Colegate.


Address as St. Augustines Street in 1783.

The house was engaged for Freeholders, the Friends of Sir Edward Astley, Bart. and Thomas William Coke, Esq. on Wednesday 14th April 1784, being the Day of Election. (One of 53 such houses in Norwich)


51 Guildengate 1802 - 1865

Middle Street in 1830, 1836, 1845 & 1854.

Licence removed to new premises built on the corner of Cherry Lane and Pitt Street, 1878

Renamed the GOLDEN SOVEREIGN 1978

 

  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 -
Darts Conveniences ?
Parking Canned Music
Forgot to look for what brewery it was.
Played out-dated canned music and had limited parking.
Variety of suggestive postcards adorn one wall.
Guilded tables.
Beat hasty retreat to next pub since we couldn't find toilet.
Recommend membership of the Pistol Club.