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Saracens Head
24 DISTILLERY STREET
WEST POTTERGATE
HEIGHAM FULL LICENCE See LION & CASTLE
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to 1/8/4  (1867 - 1965)
TOMPSON to 1845
MORGANS from 25th March 1845
STEWARD & PATTESON From 1961
WATNEY MANN    
Licensees :
WILLIAM BRITTAIN
age 67 in 1851
1839 - 1851
ROBERT WILSON 1854
RICHARD NEWMAN
1856 according to Craven
1856 - 1859
JOHN GILDEN by 1865
ALEXANDER ANDERSON 16.02.1869
ROBERT FREDERICK CROSBY 09.09.1870
ALFRED JOHN WHARF 22.10.1872
EMMA GILDEN 28.10.1873
JAMES DEBBAGE 28.09.1875
OSBORN BETTS 22.05.1877
JOHN CROWE 29.08.1878
WILLIAM SIMON DANIELS 11.10.1886
EDWARD THOMPSON 10.10.1894
ROBERT WATTS 10.08.1897
SAMUEL BLACKWOOD 10.05.1898
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER DURRANT TEE 27.12.1898
MAUD MARY TEE 13.10.1903
EDWARD PALMER 05.04.1904
RICHARD WATSON 10.10.1905
Convicted 16.11.1907 of refusing to admit police.
No record of penalty.
ALBERT GEORGE WESTON 06.04.1908
JOHN CALVER 19.01.1909
JAMES EDWARD RUSSEN 11.06.1912
ARCHIE EDWARD CANNELL 13.07.1915
MAY CANNELL 21.11.1916
ARCHIE EDWARD CANNELL 05.04.1919
CLARENCE CHEESEMAN 05.04.1930
ARTHUR ALBERT MOORE 18.10.1932
NORMAN DAVIS 31.12.1946


with Morgans windows.

Formerly the BRASSFOUNDERS ARMS.

Perhaps same as the TURKS HEAD 1848, 1850 & 1852.

Location as West Pottergate in 1845, 1865 & 1879.

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.
However the objection was withdrawn since alterations had already been made to alleviate the problem. The licence granted.

Morgans sales for 1960 were :-
122 barrels of beer.
29 spirits.

Closed 1969.

Reopened 1973 as the LION & CASTLE.

House No. 489 on 1845 Magistrates list.