Built on the site of the
HELL CELLAR and initially known as the
GLOBE & SEVEN STARS.
On Thursday 9th February 1905 the Chief Constable objected to licence
renewal because he considered the premises ill-conducted and the licence
holder unfit. The Bench heard that Mr. Francis Gutteridge had departed for South
Africa in May 1900, leaving his wife as licensee. (He had been in the Army
for 26 years before becoming a licensee.)
`Drunkenness had been permitted and the place had become the haunt of prostitutes and
thieves'.
Robert Wiley, who used to live next door gave evidence that during the
months prior to May 1904, the house had been conducted very badly. The
language used by some of the customers was `something cruel'. He had
seen as many as five customers being turned out, lying on the ground
outside, then taking their hats and coats up, returning into the
public-house again and remaining there until turning-out time. All sorts
went there, the scum of the city. Mr. Gutteridge, when he was home, was
not a sober man. The barman was rather rough and not a steady man.
Crowds used to assemble outside, attracted by the noise at midnight, of
Gutteridge and the barman fighting.
William Kerry, labour superintendent under the Norwich Board of
Guardians said he had stood outside the house, night after night, for
half an hour at a time, listening to the language. Groups of little
children would also assemble outside.
Licence renewal refused.
