No.44 High Street

Pub History

28th Nov 2006	Landlord: Christopher Williams Reynolds - Owners: JD Wetherspoon plc
13th Nov 2006	Landlord: Frederic Lluch - Owners: JD Wetherspoon plc
24th Nov 2005	Landlord: Daniel Jame Jeffery-Bailey - Owners: JD Wetherspoon plc
24th May 2001	Purchased by JD Wetherspoon plc
8th Dec 1977	Landlord: Thomas Ronald Turner - Owners: Inde Coope
18th Nov 1976	Landlord: Baron Coleman - Owners: Inde Coope
18th Sep 1975	Landlord: Robert Arthur Lucas - Owners: Inde Coope
	Purchased by Inde Coope - Malcolm Arthur Gunn
12th June 1953	Golden Lion Hotel - Newmarket UDC re-numbering map
1937	Landlord: Jason B Rowlands
1936	Gold Lion Hotel: Landlord: Ernest B. Allport - Newmarket Directory
1933	Landlord: Sarah Jane Turner
1929	Landlord: Jason B Rowlands
1926	Gold Lion Hotel: Owner - Capt. J.A. Mansfield, M.C - Newmarket Street Directory
1925	Morrell, Florence Maud (Mrs.), Golden Lion Hotel, High Street - Nkt.57 - Kelly's Directory
1923	Landlord: Percival D.Evans
1916	Landlady: Mrs Charlotte Mary Brown - Kelly's Directory
2nd Apr 1911	Landlord: Catherine Mutton - Census
1909 / 1910	Golden Lion Hotel Nkt.57 - Phone Book
1908	Landlord: Richard Mutton - Owners: E. Lacon & Co Ltd, Albion Brewery
1904	Landlord: Richard Mutton
1901	Golden Lion Hotel, High Street - Eastern Counties of England Directory
1901	Landlord: George Harris - Census
1900	Landlord: George Harris (also at the WELLINGTON)
1896	Landlord: Henry Tyler - Kelly's Directory
1892	Landlord: William Wright - Tindall's Directory
1891	Landlord: William Wright - Census
1885	Landlord: William Wright - White's Directory
1881	Landlord: William Wright - Census
1879	Golden Lion, High Street - William Wise Wright - Post Office Directory of Cambridgeshire
1874	Landlady: 'Lizzie' Goodwin - White's Directory
1873	Landlady: Louisa Goodwin - Harrod's Directory
1871	Landlady: Mary Ann Westley - Census
1868	Landlady: Mary Ann Westley - Morris' Directory
1865	Landlady: Mary Ann Westley - Post Office Directory
1861	Landlady: Mary Ann Westley - Census
1855	Landlord: Ralph Westley - White's Directory
1851	Golden Lion, Ralph Westley, High Street - Gardener Directory Hotel Inns Newmarket
1844	Landlord: Ralph Westley - White's
1839	Golden Lion - Elizabeth Jones - Robson's Commercial Directory of Beds, Bucks ...
1839	Landlady: Elizabeth Jones - Pigot's Directory
1830	Landlord: John Jones - Pigot's Directory
1823	Landlord: John Jones - Pigot's Directory

Notes

• JD Wetherspoon
  Newmarket: Golden Lion, 44 High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk. (24th May 2001)
  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ccaajpa/pubs-spoons.html
  
  
• Newmarket 1936 Directory
  Golden Lion Hotel - Allport, Ernest B. - Nkt.57 [telephone number]
  
  
• Newmarket Street Directory 1926
  Gold Lion Hotel - Mansfield, Capt. J.A., M.C. - Nkt.57 [telephone number].
  
  Yorkshire Regiment RFC / RAF
  Captain J. A. Mansfield
  Observer 18 Squadron 1916/1917.
  Wounded 1917
  [M.C. = Military Cross medal - awarded to officers in recognition of "acts of exemplary gallantry".]
  
  

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• The 'Dirty Derby' of 1844

• Ridden by champion flat racing jockey Nat Flatman, the three-year-old Orlando finished second in the race but was awarded first place after the investigation concluded that 'Running Rein' was in reality an older and ineligible stronger four-year-old named Maccabeus.
  
  William Cooper's stables were at the rear of the Golden Lion - this is where the first Nat Flatman started his career.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Flatman
  
  

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Building Changes

• Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
  Newmarket Urban District Council Records
  Reference EF 506
• Six boxes in Golden Lion Hotel Yard, for G. Harris (Leonard Crowfoot) EF 506/6/1/6/47 May 1901
• Drainage, Golden Lion Hotel, High St, for E. Lacon & Co Ltd, Albion Brewery, Cambridge (H.W. Elliott, Cambridge) EF 506/6/1/12/340 Aug 1908
  
  
• Planning Application - F/78/164/A
  The Golden Lion Hotel High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 31-01-1978
  Advertisement Illuminated
  
  
• Planning Application - F/78/583
  Golden Lion High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 20-10-1978
  Fire escape staircase 1st to 2nd floors for licenced premises.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/85/586
  Golden Lion 44 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 20-09-1985
  External blinds and decorations.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/85/587/A
  Golden Lion 44 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 02-10-1985
  Advertisement Illuminated
  
  
• Planning Application - F/89/332
  Golden Lion Public House 44 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 25-05-1989
  Advertisement Illuminated
  
  
• Planning Application - F/90/390
  Golden Lion Public House 44 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 07-06-1990
  Redevelopment of site to form two shops on high street frontage and 3 storey offices to the rear.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/90/633
  Golden Lion Public House 44 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 23-10-1991
  Revised application- redevelopment of site to form two shops on High Street frontage and detached offices to rear.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/97/443
  Golden Lion P.H. 44 High Street, Newmarket.
  Application Registered 20-08-1997
  Applicant Lion Entertainments Ltd
  Two storey side and rear extension and change of use of first floor of public house to provide extended ground floor area of public house and separate night club at first floor with the facility to use both floors as a night club after 11.30pm; replacement of ground floor shop windows on front elevation with folding doors and addition of retractable canopies.
  Decision Refuse 30-06-1998
  
  
• Planning Application - F/2000/117/ADI
  The Golden Lion, 44 High Street, Newmarket.
  Application Registered 24-02-2000
  Advertisement Illuminated
  
  
• Planning Application - F/2000/124
  The Golden Lion, 44 High Street, Newmarket.
  Application Registered 28-02-2000
  Applicant J D Wetherspoon PLC
  Duplicate Application: Erection of single storey side extension with wrought iron gates to frontage.
  Erection of extract duct and external staircases to rear elevation and alterations to side and rear windows.
  Withdrawn
  
  
• Planning Application - F/2000/118
  The Golden Lion, 44 High Street, Newmarket.
  Application Registered 18-04-2000
  Erection of single storey side extension with wrought iron gates to frontage. Erection of extract duct and external staircases to rear elevation and alterations to side and rear windows.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/2000/273
  The Golden Lion, 44 High Street, Newmarket.
  Application Registered 04-05-2000
  Erection of single storey side extension with wrought iron gates to frontage.
  Erection of extract duct/ventilation unit, external staircases and alterations to rear windows - amendment to approved planning permission F/2000/118.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/2011/0002/ADN
  The Golden Lion 44 High Street Newmarket.
  Application Registered 09-02-2011
  Advertisement - non- illuminated
  
  
• From details in the above planning applications it can be seen that following purchase by J D Wetherspoons in about 2000, that it was they who constructed the side extension which can be seen to right of the present-day pub frontilage. This used to be the passageway entrance to the rear of the pub - the article below describes the original use of this.
  
  

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• Many thanks to Tony Pringle for his information about the history of the pub and the photo 'The Golden Lion'.
  
  
• Many thanks to 'Old Newmarket' for the photo 'Golden Lion c.1910'.