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75 DERBY STREET HEIGHAM BEERHOUSE to 1870 CLOSED c1970
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/4 (1867 - 1965)
MORGANS by 1867
LACONS after 1894
Licensees :
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ROBERT CHAPLAIN 1868 - 1869
 ROBERT ASKEW 1870
JOHN PRATT 01.11.1870
WILLIAM JAMES SADD 04.04.1871
OWEN COGMAN 22.07.1875
JAMES WOOD 10.10.1878
SUSANNAH TURNER 17.01.1877
ROBERT BRAND 02.10.1877
THOMAS BURTON READ 28.09.1878
WILLIAM SPARKES 01.04.1879
JAMES ALLISON 30.03.1880
FRANCIS MILLS 17.12.1880
LOUISA MILLS 24.11.1891
JAMES HENRY GARROD 15.11.1898
GEORGE TUBBY 12.11.1901
JOHN HENRY WALKER 18.01.1910
LAURA WALKER 11.02.1915
ROBERT WILLIAM ASHLEY 05.04.1919
RONALD FREDERICK DUNN 08.10.1929
WILFRED THOMAS GAMBLE 18.10.1932
JOHN DUNTHORNE 06.04.1936
GEORGE BURROWS 10.05.1938
ELSIE MAY IRENE BURROWS 05.05.1942
HERBERT HAROLD GALLO 14.03.1950
FREDERICK WALTER REILLY 24.08.1954
ERIC BURNARD SAUNDERS 19.06.1962
JOHN RICHARD McBRIDE 26.11.1963
JOHN MURRELL CORK 07.01.1964
JOHN WILLIAM CORK 01.09.1964



Robert Askew, beer-house keeper, applied for a spirit licence on Tuesday 23rd August 1870. There was no other licensed house on the street and the next street did not have one for a quarter of a mile. A number of new dwellings had also been built. Licence granted.

Stood on corner of Derby Street and Heigham Street.

Destroyed by bombing 27th - 29th April 1942.

Reopened  March 1950?

 

Offering bed & breakfast accommodation in 1967/8 directory.

 

  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:-		  
 
Lacons No Draught Cider
Darts Conveniences 2½ (5 being the best)
Parking.  
Television in bar.
Wavy lines round walls could be nauseating if not quite sober.
Nice curtains.
Quite snug, very bright.