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The
Harris Family, 60 years on the pull by Bill Harris (your new host) When my Grandparents became licencees of the Earl Russell Public House in London in 1943 , little did they think that the Harris family would still be pulling pints sixty years later. Following eight years at the Earl Russell they spent the next thirty three years at a further four pubs in London and the South east towards the end of which my grandfather died, my gran however continued in the trade for a further nine-teen years at the Mid Kent Tavern in Lewisham, Kent before retiring, thus ending 52years in the licenced trade with my gran being at the time one of the longest serving landladies in the country, a fact of which I am extremely proud. Other members of the family have also been in the trade my Aunt Barbara spending ten years as licencee of pubs in Devon & Oxford , whilst my Sister Amanda and brother in law Tony spent three years in managed houses before buying their own pub in Brenchley, Kent in 1996 where they stayed until 2003 but which they have recently sold. My parents John & Sue Harris started their pub career at the Milton Ale Shades in Gravesend in Kent in 1971 which they ran for 13years, following this they ran a further two pubs in kent before moving to the Bridge Inn at Lenwade, Norfolk in 1993 where they stayed until retirerment from the trade in the year 2000. As the son of a pub landlord I have known very little else, having spent all my life growing up in and around public houses, my wife Louize is also very experienced in the trade having worked in bars, waited at tables and spent many hours cooking in kitchens. In the year 2000 a friend asked if Louize and myself would take on the management of the Red Lion in Norwich for him, we jumped at the opportunity to use as a stepping stone to our own future, after just a year we decided to take the plunge and we bought the lease on the White Horse Inn in South Lopham in the South of the county where we spent two very happy years but following the birth of our daughter LUCIA we felt that the only way forward was to buy our own public house and so in November 2003 we have purchased the Suffield Arms at Thorpe Market, where we look forward to serving customers both old and new for many years to come in a warm, friendly, family tradition. My ambition is to beat my grans licenced record in the trade. |
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