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CRAWSHAY ARMS NORWICH C index
95 PHILADELPHIA LANE St. CLEMENT FULL LICENCE DEMOLISHED MAY 2004
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/2 - PS 1/8/4 (1894 to 1965)
YOUNGS, CRAWSHAY & YOUNGS   
BULLARDS    
WATNEY MANN    
NORWICH BREWERY    
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Licensees :
SAMUEL COOPER (new licence) 10.10.1922
ELEANOR BAYES 28.11.1922
HARRY FLOWERDEW 05.10.1926
ELEANOR FLOWERDEW 13.02.1940
WALTER JAMES DAY 31.12.1946
THOMAS COOKE 02.01.1951
Convicted 31.01.1956 of allowing a person under 14 years to be in the bar during prohibited hours. Fine 10/-
ARTHUR PAUL COCKS 19.11.1957
REUBEN TITE 01.1982
GRAHAM LYNCH 08.09.1987
RAYMOND CLARKE &
LEON BANKS		 09.07.1991
GRAHAM GRIFFITHS &
TIMOTHY NORFOLK		 12.11.1991
ALAN PETER ROWLEDGE &
JOHN RAYMOND ALDRED		 16.03.1993
ALAN PETER ROWLEDGE &
VALERIE RILEY		 01.06.1993
DAVID ANTHONY DOWSON &
TREVOR SPATCHER		 20.12.1994
NEIL SHARPE &
JOHN COOPER		 05.12.1995
ANDREW LAWLER &
JOHN MERVYN COOPER		 16.07.1996
SUE & STEPHEN SMITH 08.04.1997
RICHARD GORDON CROOKS 17.03.1998
STEPHEN DUNTHORNE 18.07.2000
JOHN DAVID FRENCH 12.09.2000
CHRIS WHITE by 2004

Crawshay Arms - February 1988 - Image by Barry Wilkinson.
February 1988 - Barry Wilkinson.

Licence of the PHEASANT COCK transferred to this new house 10.10.1922. House officially named the CRAWSHAY ARMS 27.11.1922.

Address also as 145 Philadelphia Lane and as 151 in 1950.
95 Philadelphia Lane from 1975.

Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942.

Closed 1999 following a fire.
Reopened Friday 31st March 2000 after a reported £130,000 refit.

Closed September 2003

Demolished by 15th May 2004
Site still derelict April 2006.


  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 3 (5 being the best)
Parking  
Ivy on bar.
Fridge behind bar, Kids behind fridge.
Weird door stop - Atlas?
Opposite prop and barrel store.
 

 

The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
1930 No 4 2 No
Probably was three rooms, now two with bar extended along back wall to serve both.
Contemporary (circa 1970's) murals painted in both bar and pool room depicting pub regulars and the landlord and musicians and entertainers. Fairly primitive style but of future historic interest.
Mock Tudor central gable, leaded lights and square bays.
Bench seat inside the pool room, possibly left over from an old bottle and jug area.