1906 - showing Primrose (Trunch Brewery)

A Red Lion is referenced in Aylsham from 1700.

Advertised as Family & Commercial Hotel.

7th October 1820 - William Weaver informed his friends, Commercial gentlemen and the Public in General that he had re-fitted up the Inn and made such alterations for their accommodation. He offered Good Beds, Excellent stabling, Neat Wines and Foreign Spirits. Music would be provided for Quadrille parties and Assemblies.

Hannah Lomax (ex Mrs. Legood), remarried to farmer Thomas Pegg November 1839. She continued to run the public house until she sold to John Chapman in November 1840.
The sales price of £208 4s 0d was paid into Copeman's Bank.
Hannah Pegg had died by July 1842 and her husband claimed that the property of the wife was the property of the husband and if she had deposited money in the bank it was his, and his only to take out. The money had been paid into accounts in the names of Hannah Pegg, William Lomax and George Morris Bane. Later it was paid into the accounts of William, Hannah and Samuel Lomax.
(If Mr. Pegg was successful in getting his hands on the money has yet to be determined.)

21 year old Edmund Barnes paid with a 6d coin for a pint of porter on 23rd September 1850 but claimed that he had handed over a half sovereign. Charlotte Bunting, a serving girl, gave him 9s 9d in change, but soon realised that the half sovereign in her possession had been tendered by another person. Barnes had left the premises, but the girl chased after him and asked for the money to be returned. This he refused to do, but a policeman was called and in October 1850 Barnes was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from John Chapman, licensee.

Advertised For Sale by Auction, to be held Saturday 15th July 1854, the Proprietor retiring from the public line of business.

Offered for sale September 1854, the Proprietor, Mr. Chapman,  having taken a farm, was desirous of declining the public line of business.

Advertised December 1863 - To Let with Immediate Possession.
A Free House having lately undergone thorough repair.

For Sale by Auction August 1867, unless disposed of previously by Private Contract. Then in occupation of John Cooper.

Licensee Miles Hall was reported to the South Erpingham Petty Sessions 6th February 1920 by Deputy Chief Constable Welcome William Basham. On the 6th February he had `unlawfully permit intoxicating liquor, to wit, Whiskey, to be consumed on his licensed premises during such hours as prohibited ...'. No record of any penalty yet found.
Edward Woodyatt, brewer of Trunch was accused of drinking the whiskey out of hours
and was fined £1

Trunch Brewery to 1952 when purchased by Morgans.

.Sales 1960 were Beer - 188 barrels : Spirits - 57

Closed by Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd 29.02.1972
following the death of William Smith.

Note : Captain Richard Beard is mentioned at the house 1930 to 1936.
He is presumed to be a manager since his name does not appear in the Licence Registers at this house (Previously at the Black Boys).