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131 COLMAN ROAD - FULL LICENCE CLOSED 2008
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/3 &  PS 1/8/4 (1925 - 1965)
YOUNGS, CRAWSHAY & YOUNGS  
BULLARDS from 1958
WATNEY MANN  
NORWICH BREWERY   
INNTREPRENEUR from 1991
SPRING INNS (an Enterprise Inns lease)
ENTERPRISE INNS at time of closure
Licensees :
FREDERICK WILLIAM PAGE 05.04.1928
ELIZABETH PAGE 18.07.1939
ERNEST MAIDMENT 05.04.1949
ERNEST ROBERT CARSON 21.08.1956
NORMAN K. JOHNSON 1967
WALTER (TOM) TUDDENHAM 1972 - 1973
ANTHONY JOHN SKINNER &
JOHN EDWARD LEMMON		 19.06.1984
JOHN LEMMON 12.02.1985
JOHN LEMMON &
PETER JAMES THOMPSON		 14.05.1985
ANDREW DAYEY,
DENISE IRENE DAVEY &
LEON BANKS		 19.03.1991
ANDREW JAMES,
BARBARA GIGGINS,
TIMOTHY CHARLES & 
WILLIAM ERNEST NORFOLK		 02.06.1992
GRAHAM JOHN GRIFFITH &
JOHN RAYMOND ALDRED		 16.03.1993
TERANCE JOHN DOWSON &
TREVOR WILLIAM SPATCHER		 28.09.1993
DAVID DOWSON &
TREVOR WILLIAM SPATCHER		 26.04.1994
IAN COLLINSON,
DAVID IAN MARRISON &
CAROL DAWN MARRISON		 17.06.1997
IAN COLLINSON &
DAVID RUPERT SINGLETON		 12.05.1998
STEPHEN THOMPSON,
RACHEL JOSEPHINE THOMPSON &
EDWARD WILLIAM SCOTT		 11.05.1999
EDWARD WILLIAM SCOTT &
NICOLA IRENE LEGGETT		 11.04.2000
EDWARD WILLIAM SCOTT &
MOIRA CANVERY		 12.09.2000
RAY GREEN & VIV DABBS 12.2003 to
02.2007
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JULIA HAMER & RICKY  KNIGHT 06.2008

The sign - c1930
c1930

New licence issued 5th April 1928 upon surrender of the licences for the KITCHENERS ARMS and the WHEATSHEAF.
Extensive modernisation carried out for completion November 1968.
`The original smoke room has lost its corner bar counter and fireplace and is now the public bar. The lounge bar with its high ceilings and plain walls has been virtually doubled in size by incorporating the old off sales area and the old public bar. The original public bar entrance now introduces one to the new off-sales area.
The toilet accommodation has been greatly improved having been made accessible internally from both bars. '

Drinkers at the house joined the
LOCAL BEERS PRESERVATION SOCIETY January 1970.
The ROMANY RYE to c1984.

Signs showing ROMANY BEER HOUSE from c1984.
Closed from 7th November 2008 following a police raid.

Freehold sold for £350,000 October 2009

1984
1984

 

  The Norwich Pub Survey of 1986, compiled by the Norwich Society, in association with Norwich City Council, assessed the house:-  
 
Approx date of building Listed Quality Pre-war fittings surviving
External Internal
1930's No 8 5 No
A fine example of its period (1930's) - great variety of window shapes and sizes.
Separate Public and Lounge bars.
Marley tiled floor.
Rectangular bar in recess with barrel motifs inserted into bar counter.
Original 1930's canopy to bar counter. Modern bar back.
Makes a very valuable contribution to this inter-war shopping precinct street scope.
This area.... was laid out when the appropriate style of council housing was thought to be Neo-Georgian.