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his pub is still going as far as I know. It was my family's "local" and was only a few hundred yards from our house in The Oaklands.
The pub is situated alongside the A148 main tourist route into North Norfolk between Fakenham and Holt, approximately 2 miles east of Fakenham (Holt Road) Post Code NR21 0AY.
The photograph of the interior was taken at the same time as the exterior shot opposite (2009) and at that time does show it "To Let". And here is a sales brochure with more details of the Pub, and a few more interior photos.
The website for this pub seems to have disappeared, but the information given at the same time as the photos says this: The Green Man Inn & Restaurant is a family-run business; Steve and Sarah Harrison are the Proprietors and nephew Ben is Head Chef and Assistant Manager. Home made food served, entertainment nights, and beer garden and children's playground to the rear.
Green Man Licensees: |
JOHN TUDDENHAM (1775 - 1863)
& shoemaker [Still in occupation 1847
according to Register of Electors] |
1836 - 1845 |
RICHARD
HINTON
(According to PO Directory) |
1846 |
JOHN COLMAN |
1854 |
WILLIAM DYE |
1856 |
ROBERT SMITH |
1858 - 1861 |
FREDERICK SHAW |
1865 - 1881 |
JOHN COLEMAN |
1883 |
JOHN HILL |
1888 |
WILLIAM RAYNER |
1891 - 1892 |
CHARLES BASHAM |
1896 to 1910 |
JONATHAN HILL |
31.10.1910 |
WILLIAM NICHOLAS CATTON |
26.10.1914 |
CHARLES GIDNEY |
29.11.1915 |
EVELYN LOUISE GIDNEY |
28.01.1924 |
THOMAS HAZELWOOD |
27.10.1924 |
JOHN TODD |
27.04.1936 |
ALLAN SHERINGHAM |
30.12.1946 |
RAYMOND SUTTON |
21.06.1954
to 1975+ |
The White House, Little Snoring
John Tuddenham Senior is the first listed as Innkeeper. The Tuddenham family owned a property called "The White House" in Little Snoring, not far from the Church. Here is a photo.
John Tuddenham's granddaughter (Mary Ann aka 'Polly') married John Wills in West Ham, Essex, in 1885 and they had a daughter called Edith. She in her turn married Albert Edward Elsdon. (See his photo in the sidebar standing alongside my relatives George Southgate and his wife Alice, of Great Snoring. George ran The Unicorn pub in Gt Snoring, and you can see him standing outside it on The Unicorn page.)
This family - The Wills and Elsdons - although based in London, came to live in Little Snoring at the outbreak of war. The story of Edith's daughter Rhoda, with more detail about Little Snoring, can be seen with accompanying photos in the book HERE.
Included in the book (which you may read online) is a group photograph taken opposite the White House. On my web page for the Tuddenhams you'll find out who is in the photograph and how they are related to one another and to the Little Snoring story.
The Bell, Little Snoring
Little Snoring once had two pubs, but The Bell was closed in December 1965 and knocked down in the 70's. There is now a modern house called Sell House on the site.
The map in the sidebar shows the location of The Bell. Unfortunately I can find no photograph of the old Bell - perhaps somebody can help?
The Bell appears on Bryants 1826 map and was named the "Blue Bell" in 1836. It was damaged by enemy action 19th August 1942. 79 barrels of beer were sold in the year prior to closure, reason for closing given as `Uneconomic'; ceased trading 14th February 1966 according to Licence Register.
As I already mentioned, there was a family link between The Green Man and The Bell, in that Albert "Hubbard" Tuddenham SEEN LEFT (grandson of John the Proprietor of The Green Man) married the widow who kept The Bell, Elizabeth Flowerdew when her husband George died in 1902 . She was described as "an old witch" by Ethel Goude, a family member.
Licensees : |
WILLIAM RIVETT
victualler & castrator
(Blue Bell) |
1836 |
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND |
1845 - 1846 |
WILLIAM HOWELL (age 31 in 1851) |
1851 - 1854 |
Mrs MARIA HOWELL (
age 43 in 1861) |
1856 - 1883 |
JOHN WILLIAM LAKE |
1888 |
JAMES HARVEY |
1890 - 1892 |
GEORGE FLOWERDEW |
1896 - 1900 |
ELIZABETH FLOWERDEW |
by 1903 |
ALBERT TUDDENHAM |
31.08.1903 |
LEONARD LONG |
27.10.1913 |
JOHN THOMAS LONG |
25.10.1915 |
HARRIET LONG |
14.08.1939 |
JOHN LESLIE WHITTAKER |
14.11.1949 |
ALEC EDWARD NEWSTEAD |
28.12.1949 |
SYDNEY GEORGE GROOM |
20.12.1954
to closure |