| Licensees : |
WILLIAM DEBNEY
worsted weaver |
1760 - 1764 |
| ROBERT HARPER |
1806 - 1807 |
| JOSEPH HARPER |
1822 - 1830 |
| SAMUEL CHANDLER |
1836 |
| JAMES GOLDSWORTH junior |
1840 - 1845 |
| THOMAS HOWARD |
* 1850 - 1859 |
SAMUEL P. BOWDEN
& whitesmith |
1861 - 1864 |
| JOHN CORYNDON LEWIS |
by 1865 |
| ARTHUR CHARLES WOODROW |
1874 |
| THOMAS WORLEDGE |
04.04.1876 |
Convicted
17.04.1879 of suffering gaming.
Fine £5 plus £1/16/- costs or 1 months detention. |
Convicted
17.04.1879 of failing to admit police.
Fine 2/6d plus 7/- costs or 7 days detention. |
Convicted
17.04.1879 of allowing consumption out of hours.
Fine 2/6d plus 7/- costs or 7 days detention. |
| EDWARD BALDWIN |
13.05.1879 |
| SARAH ANN HOLMES |
22.06.1880 |
| EDMUND NEWMAN |
19.06.1883 |
| JOHN WICKS |
20.12.1886 |
| RICHARD JOHNSON WATERSON |
22.12.1888 |
| MARIA WATTS |
11.08.1891 |
| ALFRED EDWARD COLE ( Coe ? ) |
01.12.1903 |
Convicted
05.07.1905 of selling to a child in an unsealed vessel.
Fine 6/- plus 7/- costs or 7 days detention. |
Convicted
16.12.1931 of selling out of hours.
Fine £2 or 21 days detention. |
| BENJAMIN FRED BIRD |
01.10.1946 |
| FREDERICK HENRY BELL |
05.11.1946 |
| JAMES WILLIAM WILSEA |
06.10.1959 |
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| TERRENCE CAVANAGH |
1974 - 1982 |
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| Miss HELEN BROOKS |
1999 - 2001 |
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Original building dated from the 16thC.
In 1874 a provisional order was made granting the licence to Arthur Woodrow, at new
premises ( the current site).
The GREEN
DRAGON had stood in approximately the same position as the new RED LION.
The Norfolk Chronicle of 10.02.1906 records that licensee Albert Coe ( Cole ? ) applied
for lifting of a restriction on females entering a room where music, singing and dancing
took place. The house was frequented by soldiers. Before the restriction soldiers had
accompanied young women, but not by girls of 16 years old or younger, to the concert room.
The police reported that they had suffered much trouble before the restriction but not
after.
The restriction was not lifted.
Damaged by enemy action April 1942.
The `Mutton Chop Banjo Band ' provided entertainment here in the 1970's
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