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        | Licensees : |  
        | - |  |  
        | JAMES GIDNEY | *1836 |  
        | JAMES GIDNER according to Robson
 | 1839 |  
        | JAMES
          BUSHELL / BUSHALL according to Pigot 1839 - age 25 in 1841
 | 1839 - 1841 |  
        | HENRY SLACK Died Tuesday 9th April 1844 - age 34
 Still given 1845 by  White
 | 1842 - 1844 |  
        | ELIZABETH SLACK according to Magistrates 1845
 | 1845 -
          1846 |  
        | ROBERT
          BURRAGE FOYSON age 30 in 1851
 | 1850 - 1851 |  
        | WILLIAM
          THOMPSON (Given at Lower King Street 1854 ?)
 | *1854 - *1856 |  
        | JOHN GRIMES | here March 
		1858 |  
        | THOMAS ROLFE COSGROVE age 45 in 1861
 | 1858 - 1861 |  
        | JOHN BAYLEY | 1863 |  
        | Mrs REBECCA PYLE | 1865 |  
        | JAMES STRACHAN from first entry in Licence Register
 | 1867 |  
        | Licence LOST New licence applied for by Edmund Holmes 1869 - REFUSED
 |  
        | EDMUND HOLMES given as beer retailer 1869 and new (full) licence not granted until 
		August 1870
 | 1869 - 1870 |  
        | MICHAEL ANDREWS | 30.06.1874 |  
        | EDMUND HOLMES | 27.06.1876 |  
        | WILLIAM TILNEY | 23.01.1879 |  
        | MICHAEL ANDREWS died Q3 1881 - age 65
 | 16.11.1880 |  
        | ELIZABETH HAZELL ANDREWS | 10.10.1881 |  
        | HERBERT BARTRAM | 08.08.1893 |  
        | JOSEPH BERNARD McMAHON | 12.05.1896 |  
        | WALTER HANNENT age 37 in 1901
 | 21.06.1898 |  
        | HENRY JAMES BUCK Died 1902
 | 18.06.1901 |  
        | JOHN LEE | 23.10.1902 |  
        | SOPHIA DEBORAH LEE | 01.12.1903 |  
        | HERBERT FREDERICK CROSS | 1907 |  
        | JAMES RAE SOMERVILLE | 25.08.1908 |  
        | See MARKET TAVERN |  
        | MICHAEL JAMES STIBBARD & MARTIN JOHN KELLY | 17.08.1993 |  
        | DEREK
          PACKWOOD & MARTIN JOHN KELLY | 11.04.1995 |  
        | DEREK
          PACKWOOD | 08.08.1995 |  
        | JAMES RODNEY
          HIRST | 14.05.1996 |  
        | MICHAEL
          KEITH BLACKMORE | 17.06.1997 |  
        | NICOLA ANN
          MATON | 11.04.2000 |  
        | MAL CHAPMAN
          & SUSAN STRUDWICK | 04.06.2003 |  
        | NICK HOWLETT | c2005 to
          closure March 2008
 |  
        |  | Re-opened
          11.09.09 |  
        | NIKKI NEWSON manager
 | by 12.2010 |  
        | HAKIM SKALLI | by 2012 - 10.2020 |  
        | CLOSED 2020 |  
        | ELLEN GROVE & JACOB EMMERSON
 | 27.09.2022 |  |  1998
 
 
 Believed to be the Steam Packet advertised to be Sold 
		by Auction Monday, 15th  December 1834, described as being next 
		King Street and near Castle Meadow. With a Dwelling-house under the same 
		roof,  and three Tenements and adjoining Yard; and two other 
		Tenements fronting Castle Meadow. All forming a very desirable and 
		compact Estate in the parish of St. Peter per Mountergate.Public house under Lease to Messrs. Hardiman and Watts, expiring at 
		Christmas 1834.
   SOVEREIGN STEAM PACKET 1836?
 Offered to let March 1858. Occupant given as Mr. Grimes and location as Rose 
	Corner.
 
 
 OLD STEAM PACKET 1865 onwards.
 
 As he applied for a licence, Edward Holmes denied, Tuesday 24th August 
		1869, that he had previously been fined £20 for selling spirits without 
		a licence. When pressed he admitted that "when at the 
		COCK, some 
		9 or 10 years ago" he had indeed been fined "For selling a little liquor 
		to a person". He claimed he had misunderstood the question. In spite of 
		having been in the trade for 30 years and, as far as the police were 
		concerned, he was a respectable person, the magistrates refused to grant 
		the licence application.
 
 Edmund Holmes applied for a full licence Tuesday 23rd August 1870. It 
		was heard that he had been refused the previous year since he had denied 
		that he had once been fined for supplying liquors without a licence. 
		This time he received a good testimonial from the Chief-Constable and 
		the application was granted.
 
 Address as Castle Meadow in 1879and as Castle Hill in August 1891 when a Music, Singing & Dancing licence applied for
    in the name of the Old Steam Packet.
  Elizabeth Andrews applied for a singing and music 
		licence 22nd August 1891. The magistrates argued that it was not 
		necessary for a licence to be held to cover the odd occasion when a 
		customer may sing or bring in a musical instrument to entertain his 
		friends. It only became necessary if it were a regular practice.Mrs Andrews said that the room in which music and singing would take 
		place was only capable of holding between twenty and thirty people and 
		she wanted it open from 6 pm to 1pm. The licence would keep her business 
		together.
 Licence refused.
 
 On Thursday 9th February 1905 the Chief Constable objected to licence 
	renewal owing to the back doors opening into enclosed yards common to other 
	tenements.
 
	MARKET TAVERN from 
	August.1908 STEAM PACKET from 
	August 1993
 
  Purchased by Adnams Brewery 1996 
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