Research :
Licence transferred from Bull,
Magdalen Street - 6.1.1932

This pub had a probably unique Members' Bar.

The pub was bought by Aldi's in 1999 with
the intention of building a supermarket.

It was probably closed in the autumn of 2000,
but no later than January 2001; as the following
month saw a fire resulting from vandalism.

The Stolady family appear to have seen out
the last days of the pub.

Michael Stolady was licensee from January 1988.
Michael Maurice Stolady in conjuction with
Ian Michael Stolady (sons?) from November 1992,
and also Lorraine Stolady from January 1998.

Licence transferred from William IV,
Coburg Street - 16.4.1955

The pubname was a tribute to the (then?)
declining shoe-making industry of the City.
That industry had been pre-eminent for much of
the previous 100 years; and replaced the
cloth-making of earlier centuries

This very large pub was built to serve the new
West Earlham Estate. The 1986 Norwich Society
Survey places the pub in Earlham Green Lane.

It also refers to the Shoemakers in the plural.
This may well have been the name commonly given
to the pub, being short for Shoemakers' Arms;
although 'Arms' was never included in the name.