"Antoinette Cararra, Anna’s birth name, was born in Norwich in 1905 to a family of Italians who had walked from Medina to the UK. Her mother, Elisabetta, hired piano organs from Norwich’s Newman’s Yard and was known as ‘queen of the organs’, and this may well have given rise to Anna’s love of music. After a career in ballroom dancing, Anna married Kenneth Hannent and the two of them took over Ber Street’s Jolly Butchers pub in 1935. The pub also contained a dosshouse, or lodging house, for rough sleepers and those who habitually drank too much. Anna maintained this up until her death in 1976."
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