Norwich And Norfolk Arms Public House
Norwich and Norfolk Arms Public House
This public house situated on what is now Sprowston Road Norwich seems to have suffered something of an identity problem since it appears in various documents and directories as, Norwich and Norfolk Arms, Norfolk and Norwich Arms, Norwich Arms and Norfolk Arms. Despite this conflicting evidence as to what the premises were called it is a known fact that it first appeared as the Norwich and Norfolk Arms in 1830. The 1896 Kelly's Directory recalls the then licensee as and Mrs Margaret Allen, as to whether it was a coincidence but William Allen is recorded as being a brick maker, without further research one does not know if they were relations or otherwise. If this was the case it would seem to carry on quite a Sprowston tradition where public house and owning and brickmaking seemed to go hand in hand.
Starting in 1830 the premises went well past its century as it continued trading until closure in 1958, then under the ownership of Steward and Paterson's, the licensee being Kenneth James Edwards. This company still held the licence on closure although when it came up for renewal in 1964 no application was made so the license lapsed. Throughout its life there seems to be only two reports of problems with the law, in 1864 the then licensee Peter Burrows was committed for trial for receiving a side of pork, stolen from the slaughterhouse of James Fuller, who we believe was trading on Magdalen Road at the time. There was also a problem with the licence held, having been granted by the wrong authority this would lead to a court case - see Norfolk and Norwich Arms, at Sprowston -Court case. The building having being demolished after closure no trace remains and it is now under modern development.
The Norfolk and Norwich PH in the 1950s?
