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The Hotel Tap was known in the 1960s/70s as the Bank Tap. This was annexed to the Bridge Hotel prior to 1841. The Hotel itself was formerly known as the Washway House and was a staging post before crossing the wash/marsh between the House and Walpole Cross Keys in Norfolk; the area King John was supposed to have lost his ‘jewels’. The Tap was the part looking after the Ostlery side of the business and where the horse servants etc. slaked their thirst. I knew it as a separate drinking hole in 1960s/70s although it was still part of the Hotel.(No horses in those days!). It was a small establishment with two rooms side by side with the small bar interlinking the two centrally. The landlord then was Bill Richardson. It came into disuse in the 1970s and was eventually demolished.

Bob M Garner

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