The Grosvenor Arms, inexplicably re-named "The Yard", is tucked away just inside the Grosvenor Yard's High Street entrance. It seems it may well have originated as the kitchen and staff quarters for the house fronting the High Street. An old publican stated that there were definite signs of a bricked up "tunnel" in the cellars
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Year | Licensee | Owner | source |
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1787 | Chapman's map | ||
1823 | F.L.Bloss (possibly the same as Crown in 1830) | Pigot | |
1828 | Robert Parkinson (son Thomas suicide) | Bury & Norwich Post | |
1830 | Robert Parkinson | Pigot | |
1833 | Robert Parkinson (sale of effects on leaving inn ?) | Bury & Norwich Post | |
1841 | " " | census | |
1844 | " " | Post Office | |
1847 | Samuel Foreman | Post Office | |
1850 | William Foreman | Slater | |
1852 | ? | Tyrell Moody | Bury & Norwich Post |
1855 | George Hammond | " " | White |
1861 | " " | " " | census |
1862 | for rent | Moody Brewers | Cambridge Independent Press |
1863 | Thomas Preece reported as "one time licensee" in a bankruptcy case | census | |
1865 | Joseph Burling | Post Office | |
1869 | " " | Harriett Moody | |
1871 | " " | census | |
1877 | Joseph Burling (died Jan 1878) | " " | Bury & Norwich Post |
1878 Mar. | James Burling (son of previous) | " " | Bury & Norwich Post |
1878 May | George Webb | " " | Bury Free Press |
1881 May | George Webb | " " | census |
1885 | Henry Webb | " " | Bury Free Press |
1887 Dec. | Henry Davey | " " | Bury Free Press |
1891 Dec. | Henry Davey | " " | census |
1896 Dec. | Henry Davey | sold to Greene,King | Bury Free Press |
1901 | " " | " " | census |
Oct 1903 | William Page | " " | Cambridge Daily News |
1911 | " " | " " | census |
1916 | Herbert Usher | " " | Kelly |
1922 | " " | " " | Kelly |
1925 | Cecil A Burrage | " " | Kelly |
1929 | " " | " " | Kelly |
1930 Nov. | Henry John Worker reported as late of Grosvenor Inn | " " | Bury Free Press |
1932 | Ernest Cecil Raynor | " " | Kelly |
1937 | " " | " " | Kelly |
1939 | Percy Ripton | " " | 1939 register |
1960s | Eric Foreman | " " | |
1960s | Alfred Wilson | " " | |
5-10-1967 | Patrick Roy Lilley | " " | |
1995 Aug. | Jeffrey Watts | " " | licensing register |
23-3-2007 | Jeffrey Watts (now the Yard) | " " | licensing register |
1-4-2011 | Catherine Gillian Mulgrew (Ms) | " " | " " |
21-6-2011 | Brett Leacy | " " | " " |
22-9-2014 | Amy Louise Walker (Miss) | " " | " " |
22-3-2018 | Fraser David Thompson | " " | " " |
1943 1960s Yard-2010