Clipper Schooner

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Clipper Schooner
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General information
Type Pub
AddressClipper Schooner
19 Friars Lane
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
NR30
Completed1938

The Clipper Schooner is a public house at 19 Friars Lane, Great Yarmouth, in England. It was designed by A. W. Ecclestone in 1938 for Lacons brewers, [1] for whom Ecclestone was the chief surveyor. [2] It has a decorative tiled panel showing a sailing ship that the Tile Gazetteer describe as typical of Ecclestone's practice in his modern pub designs. [3]

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The current building replaced an earlier Lacons pub that dated from the mid-nineteenth century.

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References

  1. Clipper Schooner. Recording Archive for Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  2. "Dragons Resurgent", David H. Kennett, Information 73, British Brick Society, February 1998, pp. 24 (p. 2).
  3. Norfolk. Tile Gazetteer. Retrieved 30 May 2018.