| Licensees : |
WARD &
SEAMAN
Wine, Spirit & Porter Shop
1. St John's Maddermarket |
1842 |
| ROBERT SEAMAN |
1845 |
| SAMUEL & FREDERICK
GRIMMER |
by 1867 |
| SAMUEL GRIMMER |
1874 |
| ERNEST BUTCHER GRIMMER |
18.02.1890 |
| LACON & Co |
29.12.1896 |
| WILLIAM JAMES ROSE BURRAGE |
28.07.1903 |
| ARTHUR WELLINGTON EVERETT |
11.06.1907 |
| WILLIAM GEORGE NEEVE |
27.11.1907 |
| LEONARD GURR |
09.02.1932 |
| MICHAEL FALCON junior |
24.05.1932 |
| HARRY BURGESS |
26.08.1941 |
| JOSEPH CHARLES EDMUND ALDOUS |
01.01.1946 |
WILLIAM SMITH
(& Dora Smith) |
31.12.1946 |
| ALFRED EDWARD STEWARD |
15.11.1949 |
| JOHN GEOFFREY CLARKE |
12.05.1959 |
| - |
|
| LIZ & RAY CASTLE |
to 1979 |
William Smith c1948
Behind the bar of the Shrub House.
|
Formerly the premises of
WARD
& SEAMAN
importers of Foreign Wines & Spirits
Agents for Truman, Hanbury & Co's London Stout Porter
Found as Ye OLD SHRUB HOUSE in 1905.
6 day licence from 1872 to 12.03.1957, when licence removed from the CITY ARMS
(and licence of the ORCHARD surrendered).
In 1896 the licensees are given as :-
Ernest de Montesquiou Lacon,
Henry Sidney Hammet Lacon,
Charles James Lucas &
Alfred George Lucas.
In 1974 the adjoining hatters shop of the world famed Rumsey Wells was
incorporated into the licensed premises.
The house closed September 1979 and the original corner bar became a newsagents.
The remaining property reopened c1984 and was known as BLUEBERRIES
.
Became the RUMSEY WELLS
by 1985 and then
the
St. ANDREWS TAVERN in 1989.
The RUMSEY WELLS
again 2008. |
