Licensees :
LUCY HARPER	here August 1857
CHARLES FAIRWEATHER & maltster Age 37 in 1861	1861
JOHN MILLS	1863 - 1865
EDWARD WARD	here 12.1865
JOHN LLOYD	*1868
Fined 19s and 11s costs Friday 23rd October 1868 for keeping his house open at a quarter before 12 on Sunday 12th October.
CATHERINE LLOYD	1871
ARTHUR COOK & florist & gardener (B Cook 1872)	05.1872 - 1883
Mrs EMMA COOK	1888
ARTHUR COOK	1890 - 1902
HENRY BUTCHER	1904
GEORGE ALDRICH	29.11.1907
WALTER GIRDLESTONE Age 55	1911
GEORGE FREDERICK ROBINSON	1912 - 1917
HENRY CHARLES LEWIS	1918 - 1922
Friday 11th July 1919 - Fine of 10s for permitting the consumption of intoxicating liquor, on 2nd July, during prohibited hours. Customers, Hessel Elsey and Robert Russell Bond were each fined 10s.
WILLIAM KELF	1925 - 1929
WALTER SAMUEL SHARMAN	1932 to 1944
FREDERICK SPINLOVE	15.12.1944 - 1963
GEORGE WILLIAM ALGERNON ALBONE	28.02.1963 - 1964
JOHN HENRY DUNSTAN	03.06.1965
REGINALD WILLIAM SMY	10.1966 - 1969
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LES TAYLOR	by 1973 - 1982
STEPHEN & BRENDA LEE	12.1982
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1897
Image from the collection of the late Percy Rush.
Shown with permission

Full licence of the CROWN transferred here January 1872.

On the evening of Thursday 16th December 1875, a show of dogs and monkeys took place in the yard of the Railway Tavern. The promoters of the event had not been allowed to erect their booth in the Market Place owing to the ground being covered in snow. Owing to the weather only a small audience gathered, but the performance was such that those who attended felt amply repaid. Between 20 and 30 dogs and monkeys appeared on stage and their clever performances caused the utmost fun and amusement.


The rating assessment value went from £16 to £40 in May 1898.

A licence for the police dance, to be held October 1948, was not objected to by Inspector George Grainger, when applied for by Mr. F. A. Spinlowe on Friday 17th September 1948.


The police again offered no objection to Mr. Spinlove having an occasional licence, from 8 p.m. to midnight on Tuesday 29th March 1949, for the Harleston Divisional Police sports club dance, to be held at the Corn Hall.

Closed and converted to 5 apartments.