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30 St AUGUSTINES St AUGUSTINES FULL LICENCE CLOSED 19.12.1936
NORWICH LICENCE REGISTERS PS 1/8/1 to PS 1/8/2 (1867 to 1925)
STEWARD & Co Supplied as a free house from November 1843 to 1847
SEAMAN & Co by 1867
GRIMMER & Co 1873
LACON & Co c1898 - Leased from the Trustees of the Great Hospital Charity.
LACON & Co 13.06.1936 - Leased from the Governor of the King Edward VI Grammar School
Licensees :
MARY ANN SKELTON
(Recorded 1851 as age 63  and an Annuitant,
living at William Street, Heigham)		 1842 - 1845
Samuel Francis Pye
See below		 c1848 ?
JONATHAN BALES **1851 - 1856
uninhabited 1861
GILES MADGE
tunist & victualler		 to 1864
HENRY WEEKS 29.03.1864
JOHN BRIGHTON 1865
EDWARD FREEMAN by 1867
CHARLES DUFFIELD 26.06.1888
JOHN WILLIAM FOX 22.03.1898
SAMUEL BELLWARD 05.02.1901
FREDERICK MOUNCER 25.11.1902
FREDERICK CHARLES SWASH 01.09.1903
ROBERT JOHN BRUNDELL 11.10.1904
HERBERT BLACKMORE 11.06.1907
WILLIAM COOPER 06.04.1912
JAMES ARTHUR HORSTEAD 07.10.1913
RHODA LYDIA HORSTEAD 16.07.1918
JAMES ARTHUR HORSTEAD 05.04.1919
JAMES SYDNEY BROWN 17.05.1921
JOHN COLEMAN 20.06.1922
JOSEPH CHARLES ALDOUS 24.07.1934


Samuel Francis Pye of Cherry street, Lakenham, petitioned for Bankruptcy, 24th February 1857. He was then described as in no business or employment.
He had previously been a Grocer and Dealer in Tea and Tobacco, and Provisions, and Commission Agent, in Cherry street. Before that, lodging at the Artichoke, Magdalen Gates, unemployed; previously at the Wine Cooper's Arms, St. Augustine's street, Wine, Spirit and Porter Merchant and Dealer in Tobacco; Before that, lodging at the Artichoke, Magdalen Gates, Clerk at the Telegraph Office, Eastern Counties Railway Station.
So Mr. Pye could have been at this house in the period 1845 to 1851, or about 1856 ?

(In 1851, 15 year old Samuel Pye is given at 12 Manchester Buildings and occupation given as a clerk - different person, or offspring?)


Also listed as the WINE VAULTS and as
St. AUGUSTINES WINE VAULTS (1839, 1840).

** Jonathan Bales is given in the 1851 census
as being 31 years of age and a 
Wine & Spirit Merchant at
197, St Augustine's.

In a January 1870 report regarding the activities of politicians in the 1869 municipal elections, the house was identified as "commonly known as the RED LAMP".

Address as 30 St. Marys Road 1892.

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 and the licence granted.

Licence provisionally refused 11.02.1936 and referred to Compensation.
Closed under Compensation 19.12.1936.