| Licensees : |
| RICHARD COOKE |
1760 - 1764 |
| WILLIAM DRANE |
1802 - 1822 |
JOSEPH CLEMENTS
(Previously at Lord Exmouth Tavern, later at the Duke Of Wellington,
White Lion Lane, then unemployed and bankrupt by February 1832.) |
1830 |
| GEORGE SEARLE |
1832 |
| JOHN SCARLE |
1836 |
JAMES THURLING
& hay dealer |
1837 - 1845 |
JAMES MAGNUS
according to the Magistrates list |
1845 |
| WILLIAM
COOPER |
1846 |
NOAH THROWER
age 56 in 1851
1850 according to Hunt & Slater |
1850 - 1858 |
| (ROBERT POWLEY age 53) |
(1851) |
| M THROWER |
1859 |
| WALTER W. BUTCHER |
1861 - 1865 |
| RICHARD GIBBS |
by 1867 |
| ELIZA GIBBS |
25.11.1873 |
| GEORGE SQUIRES |
25.02.1878 |
| EDWIN HAMLET MIDLANE |
15.07.1913 |
| ARTHUR JAMES COCKS |
20.11.1917 |
Convicted
06.03.1924 of failing to admit police.
Fine £2 plus or 13 days detention. |
| Mrs. Mabel Stella Cocks was
fined £1 on Friday 11th July 1941 for showing a light at 15 minutes past
midnight on 26th June. |
| ERNEST NUTTALL |
01.01.1957 |
| NORMAN STANLEY FORSTER |
01.10.1957 |
| WILLIAM NELSON COBLEY |
10.06.1958 |
| HAROLD DAVEY SEMMENCE |
11.10.1960 |
| WALTER HAROLD COOPER |
16.05.1961 |
| RALPH GRIFFITHS |
17.03.1964 |
| JACK
LAWRENCE SPARKES |
18.07.1967 |
| DOURO POTTER |
05.09.1967 |
| GRAHAM MITCHELL |
19.10.1982 |
DAVID MARK
BOXALL &
DAVID MANTON |
09.01.1985 |
GRAHAM
DAVID MITCHELL &
DAVID MANTON |
18.06.1985 |
| GRAHAM DAVID
MITCHELL |
03.04.1990 |
JOHN COOKE
&
JOHN LEMMON |
29.09.1992 |
JOHN COOKE
&
NEVILLE SNELL |
17.12.1996 |
JOHN COOKE
&
NEIL BARTHOLOMY |
16.09.1997 |
| Closed January to April 2009 |
JOHN COOKE
General manager |
17.04.2009 |
MICHAEL GIBSON
deputy general manager |
by 2010 |
KEVIN BLACK
manager |
2017 - 2021 |
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09.03.1939
Image by George Plunkett - shown by permission - Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002
The WOOLPOCKET 1760/1807
Lot number 8 in the sale Monday 7th September 1778, of the Brewery
and Public Houses, late in the ownership of Nockold Tompson,
deceased.
8th April 1837 - James Thurling thanked his Friends and the Public for the
liberal encouragement he had experienced during his ten years at the
JOLLY FARMERS
and informed them that he had taken the Woolpack......
Address as Timberhill in 1845.
To Let with Immediate Possession March 1845
Apply Messrs. Morgan, Brewery, King Street.
Rebuilt 1938 on site away from the road and further along
from Timberhill.
SISTE VIATOR QUOD PETIS HIC EST
above front entrance, roughly translates as
Stop traveller, what you seek is here.
The house contains 5 of 6 plaster relief's by Moray Smith, depicting the wool trade.
These were commissioned by Morgans Brewery about 1938. The 6th one was said to have been
at the brewery in King Street.
Morgans sales for 1960 were 180 barrels of beer
and 143 spirits (gallons)
In August 1970 Julie Morgan, Jenny Potter, Jackie Marias, Marion Nichols
and Mary Tucker were part of the team of ten `girls sent out on the river
every Sunday' with invitations to holidaymakers to visit the Woolpack. |
