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89 BER STREET St. JOHN SEPULCHRE FULL LICENCE CLOSED 31.12.1913
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 - PS 1/8/2 (1867 - 1925)
TOMPSONS Conveyed to Morgans 25th March 1845
MORGANS  
Licensees :
GEORGE PLAYFORD 1806 - 1810
ELIZABETH PLAYFORD here 07.1814
PETER WOODS
age 72 in 1851
1814 - 1854
Paid costs of 7s 6d for obstruction Wednesday 18th August 1852 - See opposite.
MATTHEW BELL
Age 43 in 1861
Died Q3 1863
1856 - 1863
ABIGAIL BELL 1864
SAMUEL MARKHAM BRIDGES 1865
JAMES SQUIRES by 1866
Accused 11.02.1866 of being open out of hours.
Licence refused Monday 26th August 1867.
ROBERT FAIRMAN 18.01.1868
JOHN CRANCHER 11.10.1869
JAMES CARR
(married Hannah Q4 1876)
died age 76 Q4 1879
30.09.1870
Accused 16.02.1873 of being open out of hours.
Convicted 15.05.1879  of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine £1/10/- plus 17/6d costs
HANNAH CARR
(married J Squires Q1 1882)
died age 76 - Q3 1897
30.12.1879
JAMES SQUIRES
died Q4 1890
28.03.1882
HANNAH SQUIRES 06.01.1891
JOHN HAZELGROVE
(Kelly gives John HAZELWOOD in 1892)
30.06.1891
JOSEPH FARRELL 03.05.1892
MARY ANN FARRELL 08.02.1898
GEORGE EATON 06.02.1900
Convicted 03.10.1903 of permitting drunkenness.
Fine 40/- plus 6/- costs or 1 month in detention.
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON 11.10.1904
HENRY CATON 07.05.1907
ALBERT JAMES BURRELL 20.07.1909
WILLIAM WALTER WARD 28.11.1911


Offered for sale by auction as advertised in the Norfolk Chronicle of 06.11.1844.
The sale, by W.W.Simpson, to be at the NORFOLK HOTEL, on the behalf of Tompsons Brewery.

On Wednesday 18th August 1852, Inspector Clarke said that landlord Peter Woods was in the habit of placing a bench outside his house, in the foot-way, upon which parties sat drinking beer and thereby causing an obstruction. The property was close to where some of the worst characters lived and these parties came and annoyed the public as they sat there.
Mr. Woods said he had been at the house for 38 years and there had never been a summons against him in all that time.
In his support, Captain Money said that he regularly walked up and down the street and had never been annoyed by the persons sitting outside the Lock & Key.
Mr. Woods was instructed to pay the costs of 7s 6d.

At the sessions held 19th August 1862 the licensee was one of many who were reprimanded for omitting to assist the police, were in the habit of allowing prostitutes to assemble or conducted themselves in a manner that, although they had not been summoned or fined, yet were considered by the magistrates to be improper persons to be entrusted with licenses.
(Mr. Bell was reprimanded for the evasive manner in which he had given evidence in a case some time previously.)


Licence renewal opposed August 1891 on the grounds that it was not required. The Chairman could see no reason why this particular house had been selected from those in the immediate area.
Licence renewed.

Address as 91 Ber Street in 1890, 1904 & 1912.

Licence provisionally refused 12.02.1913 and referred to Compensation.
Closed under Compensation 31.12.1913.