The Chief Constable objected to licence renewal as reported in the Norfolk Chronicle of 10th February 1906.
The court heard that `At 17minutes past eleven o'clock on the night of December 4th 1904, 5 men and 2 women were found in the bar, and one of them was served a bottle of beer'.
On the 6th August 1905 the police had, on separate visits, found 2 men drunk at the bar.
The house was said to be used ` by women of the unfortunate class' as well as by `women of ill fame and convicted thieves'.
Licensee Charles Pennell accepted that he had been previously charged and convicted, but said that the police evidence was `All false' .

The licence application was refused Wednesday 7th February 1906 on the grounds that the premises were ill-conducted.