A large quantity of Reed was for sale here, either wholesale or retail, June 1805.

One of 40 houses named (WHALE'S BONE) as being engaged for the Reception of Freeholders for Sir John Woodhouse and Sir Edward Astley's Friends on the Day of Election, Wednesday 14th April 1784.

One of 36 Norwich houses opened for the reception of Voters in the interest of Mr. Windham and Mr. Coke on election day Thursday 13th November 1806.
The name of the Hundred for which the house was appropriated was to be displayed at each house.


Given as WHALEBONES in 1811.
WHALE BONE INN 1831

Ninhams illustration (1792-3) of King Street Gates shows a house showing the sign of the SHIP. However the same building also appears to have an archway formed from the jaws of a whale.
Could the SHIP & the WHALEBONE be one in the same?

For Sale by Auction Tuesday 15th January 1850.
Comprising Club-room, Kitchen, Keeping-room, Parlour, Cellar, two Rooms over gateway, Sleeping-rooms and every convenience, with large Yard, Stables, Granaries, Coal Bins, Quay Head and Warehouses next to river. In occupation of Mrs. Kett and her undertenants.

On Tuesday 10th September 1850 the licence was transferred to a different house in King Street, Mary Burgess being the new licensee at that house. Unfortunately the name of the house in not given in the record and has yet to be identified.
It was mentioned in the Sessions held Tuesday 10th September 1851 that Steward & Patteson had, within the previous year, surrendered the Whalebone licence in consideration of a new licence elsewhere in the City.