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EARSHAM LICENCE REGISTER PS 21/3/1 & PS 21/3/2 (Feb 1932 - Feb 1967) : Note 02.1959 to 02.1964 are missing
SHERIFFE to 1840
LACONS As shown in licence register to 1967 (Whitbread took over Lacons in 1966)
WHITBREAD  
ENTERPRISE INNS  
FREEHOUSE As described September 1983. Purchased January 2012 by Michael Massey
Licensees :
SAMUEL ALECOCK 1836
WILLIAM GOOCH 1839 - 1843
WILLIAM PALMER
age 60 in 1851
1845 - 1856
JAMES FISHER 1858
WILLIAM FISHER
agricultural labourer
1861
JAMES FISHER 1863
WILLIAM FISHER 1864
JAMES FISHER 1865 - 1868
WILLIAM FISHER 1869
JAMES FISHER 1872
WILLIAM FISHER 1875 - 1877
GEORGE SMITH 1879
EMMANUEL CHAPMAN 1881
WILLIAM CROOKS
& coal dealer
1883 - 1896
CHARLES CALTON 1900 - 1929
EDWARD JAMES GODBOLD 18.10.1929
FREDERICK CHARLES COLLS 30.06.1935
WALTER GEORGE HINES 24.04.1936
ROBERT HENRY WOODTHORPE 08.07.1938
to 1961
GEORGE KIRBY 1961 - 1962
CYRIL ARTHUR JENNER
(Cyril Arthur James ?)
1962 - 1965
IVAN ROBERT KNIGHTS 01.07.1965
BARRY HOPKINS from 1973
BILLY KEYWOOD by 05.1978
Closed from December 1981 to Friday 15th April 1983, when it reopened.
TONY & COLLEEN GARRETT 04.1983
JESS & MANDY ISSA
RALPH & DAPHNE PALMER
10.1985 - 1993
JESS & MANDY ISSA
RALPH  PALMER
1995
-  
MICHAEL MASSEY by 2008
   

22nd November 1986
22nd November 1986 - See below.


Lot No. 28 in sale 2nd September 1840 of the Robert Sheriffe estate.
Tenant then William Gooch.
Sold for £520 to Lacon

March 1843 - Robert Larter, aged 51 was charged, that on 21st October 1842, he stole a pair of reins and a pair of leather driving breechings from the stables of William Gooch .
The articles were discovered at Beccles where Temple Paddle, the son of an innkeeper, had paid 1s 3d for them.
Found guilty and having been previously convicted, Larter was sentenced to seven years' transportation.

The two-seater Morris Cowley belonging to landlord Fred Colls was destroyed by fire, Sunday 21st July 1935. The fire, in a number of sheds between the Lion Inn and the Post Office, caused other extensive damage, but the public house was untouched..

 

As the LION to February 1947
The RED LION thereafter.

Following reopening, April 1983, new signage was installed on the house.
In April 1984 the South Norfolk District Council ordered that planning permission was required for advertising signs placed on the house, and on the verge opposite.
In August 1984, two large signs, each four feet six inches square, were standing on the verge, opposite the Red Lion, declaring "Red Lion Free House" and Fine Ales and Food". South Norfolk District Council ordered their removal. By 1st November 1984, the signs had returned to the verge. The Council again ordered removal since "they were an obtrusive element in the street scene and detract from the visual amenities of the area"
Legal action was threatened.