Licensees :
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NICHOLAS SCOTT woolcomber	1760 - 1763
MARY MOON	1806
BENJAMIN FITT	1810 - 1822
HENRY VINCENT	1830
THOMAS SLACK	1836
WILLIAM HEAP earthenware dealer age 64 in 1851 Died 1854	1839 - 1854
FRANCIS HAGUE	1856
J SACKER	1858
JAMES LANE	by 1859
Convicted 10.02.1881 of selling out of hours. Fine £5 plus 17/6d costs
JAMES MOONEY	28.06.1881
WILLIAM HENRY MOORE	24.06.1884
ROBERT CHESTNEY	10.10.1885
JAMES YEOMANS BLYTH	28.11.1890
Licence not taken up 1891 - House demolished. Relocated in new premises on opposite side of road.
HENRY MORGAN	21.08.1891
ROBERT TURNER RIX	11.10.1892
WALTER COE	08.08.1893
EDWARD CHARLES CLARKE	02.01.1894
ALBERT LINFORD	23.03.1897
JOHN DYER	09.05.1899
THERESA DYER	08.05.1900
CHARLES CHRISTMAS GROOM	06.05.1902
ARTHUR WALTER TURNER	17.01.1905
GEORGE BLOOMFIELD WATSON	27.11.1906
ALFRED WILLIAM BATTERBY	28.11.1911
Convicted 05.06.1917 of allowing consumption out of hours. Fine 10/- or 7 days detention.
Convicted 06.11.1917 of permitting drunkenness. Fine 10/- or 7 days detention.
FREDERICK DONALD MACKENZIE	05.04.1923
Convicted 11.07.1930 of selling out of hours. Fine 10/- or 7 days detention.
FREDERICK ROBERT CLARKE	09.02.1932
JOHN WOODHOUSE HOLDEN	06.02.1934
ALFRED MILES NEAL	04.09.1934
ERNEST MANN	01.01.1935
ARTHUR DOUGLAS WARD	06.10.1942
WILLIAM VICTOR PAIGE	28.08.1951
FREDERICK ALAN GREEN	03.01.1961
PETER WICKHAM	by 06.1966
EDWARD OWEN	1969
DAVID HOSKINS & ALAN FULLER	07.1977

House No. 242 on 1845 Magistrates list.

Given as the PIGEONS 1806, 1807, 1810,1822, 1850 & 1854.

2 dwellings and a small Raghouse were included in the 1844 sale when Morgans purchased the premises. The site then being at the corner of St. Benedict's Street and Lower Westwick Street.

10th April 1854 - All persons with claim or demand upon the Estate of the late William Heap were to send their account within one month. Those indebted were also required to settle by that date.

Advertised to let 27th April 1854 by application to Morgans Brewery. Described as well worthy of the attention of a person desirous of embarking in the Furniture Trade, or other, requiring spacious premises.

A provisional new licence was granted to Henry Morgan 21st August 1891 for a new house to be built on the South side of St. Benedict's Street in place of the old house which was to be demolished to allow `public improvement'.

New licence declared final 10th October 1892. (16 Charing Cross)

Became the offices and retail outlet for Barwell & Co following the destruction of the St. Stephens premises in 1942.
BARWELLS WINE VAULTS.
but bar still known as the PIGEONS

House renamed the HOG IN ARMOUR 1977