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147 CHURCHILL ROAD

POCKTHORPE

FULL LICENCE

DEMOLISHED MARCH 2006

NORWICH LICENCE REGISTER PS 1/8/2 (21 August 1894 - 1925)
STEWARD & PATTESON
WATNEY MANN
NORWICH BREWERY
.
PHOENIX INNS
ROYSAN Ltd	to August 2000

Licensees :
JOHN WICKS (Previously at the Two Necked Swan)	10.10.1898
Convicted 29.09.1908 of permitting drunkenness. Fine 20/- plus 6/6d costs or 7 days detention.
JOHN WILLIAM MUSK	19.01.1909
WILLIAM WALTER WALE	10.05.1938
ARTHUR GEORGE NASH	28.08.1951
PHILIP PETER CHIPPERFIELD	04.04.1973
PETER HENRY DUNTHORNE	26.02.1985
TERENCE DOWSON & ROGER COOPER	30.04.1991
PHILIP WHITE	10.11.1992
SUSANNE MacKENZIE, GLEN WHITE & ROY ABRAHAMS	12.08.1997
GLEN WHITE & PATRICK SIMMONS	16.06.1998
WILLIAM DUNBAR, SUSAN DUNBAR & PATRICK SIMMONS	08.12.1998
GLEN WHITE & PATRICK SIMMONS	13.04.1999
PATRICK SIMMONS & JOHN McGUINESS	14.12.1999

Fine brickwork above the main door.

c1984

Opened 10th October 1898 following the closure and demolition of the
TWO NECKED SWAN.

Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942

Closed 2004

Future bleak 2005.
Demolished during February / March 2006

Detail from gable end

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:-

S&P	No Draught Cider
Darts	Conveniences 3 (5 being the best)
Parking
Like Branford Stores - high ceilings and generally vast - too vast, in fact rather remote. "N" brass dishes hanging on wall. Another non-ecclesiastical narthex (we think). Customers vocabulary limited to "Bloody ..... Bloody ...... and ..........Bloody". Superb Alsation. Scrubbed wood block floor.

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
1900	No	8	5	No
Used to have three rooms, smoke room, lounge and bar. Now one large bar with the old smoke room as the games room. Dull pub furniture. Modern 1940's fireplace. Decorative stonework over corner entrance and decorative brickwork is of architectural note.