| Licensees : |
JOHN HOWES
& carter
( age 41 in 1851 & machineman
- no mention of beer ) |
1845 - 1861 |
ROBERT MANTHORPE
& blacksmith |
* 1865 - *
1872 |
SAMUEL DAVIDSON
& bootmaker
( Samuel Davison 1888 ) |
* 1875 - *
1888 |
HERBERT K DAVIDSON
& carpenter |
1890 - 1891 |
SAMUEL DAVIDSON
( Davison 1904 ) |
* 1896 - *
1904 |
| - |
|
| WILLIAM MARK KNIGHTS |
by 1912 |
| ELIZA DIVOLL KNIGHTS |
07.06.1927 |
| JAMES EDWIN
KNIGHTS |
16.12.1947 |
| ........... RANDALL |
to closure |
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Said to have been originally called the PLOUGH LIGHTS
after the lights kept burning in the west arch of the Southgate Church, on the screen
known as the Plow Rood.
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Sales (in final year of trading?) given as
22 7/8 barrels of beer.
Licence surrendered.
~
After closure, the inn sign was given to Cawston Church.
The church had a Plow Guild which would have met at the inn.
An inscription in the church dating from the early 16thC reads :-
God speede the plow
And send us all corn enow
our purpose for to mak
at crow of cok of ye plowete of Sygate
Be mery and glade
wat Goodale yis work mad.
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