** Possibly the same as the
RED LION STEAM (?) given 1819.
Located
on the South West corner of Row 109, Middlegate to King Street.
Fisherman Benjamin Taylor was charged and found guilty, Thursday 22nd
September 1849, of stealing a pair of oars from the boat of John
Butterfield. Punishment being three weeks with hard labour.
On Saturday
9th April 1864, nine year-old Alfred Kent was apprehended whilst attempting
to steal copper coins from the till. Eleven year-old Charles Bowles
was keeping watch outside. The two children were members of a juvenile gang
and Bowles had two previous convictions for stealing from tills. Each were
sentenced to twenty-one days' hard labour with Bowles receiving a further
five years in a reformatory.
Before the
magistrates on Monday 17th October 1859, James Grey of the
RED LION, Gaol Street was
ordered to put 5s in the poor box for having persons drinking in his house
at a prohibited hour on the previous evening.
Licence transferred to the
ALBION,
Gorleston Thursday 21st August 1884.