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.