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WHITE HORSE DISS Index 20 MARKET PLACE DISS HUNDRED FULL LICENCE 01379 642913 DISS HUNDRED REGISTERS taken 18th September 1789 & 19th September 1794 DISS BREWERY Owned by Charles Simpson (Died 1771) : Sold 1823 by John Dyson LACONS    WHITBREAD    ADNAMS (trading as LACON INNS in early 1990's) FREEHOUSE Purchased by tenants Peter & Jan Mills 1996

Licensees : -   LOVETT / LOVET CLEMENTS 1789 - 1794 -   -   JOHN WHAITE 1822 ROBERT WRIGHT 1830 ROBERT RAVEN 1836 - 1837 Fine of 5s on Monday 23rd January 1837 for allowing men and girls of loose character to frequent his house. SAMUEL DRANE according to Pigot (Samuel Brane according to Robson) 1839 SAMUEL STOWERS age 54 in 1851 1845 - 1854 GEORGE EDWARD WRIGHT & builder & builder, wheelwright & market bailiff 1872 1856 - 1872 JOHN NICHOLS & engineer 1875 - 1901 WILLIAM KING (Died 1935 - Funeral Thursday 30th May.) 23.10.1901 - 1915 EDGAR CHAPMAN 12.01.1916 - 1932 Wednesday 24th May 1922 - Found guilty of indulging in a gambling game on the bar counter. Observed by Inspector Chambers through a window which was not totally obscured by blinds. 1s 9d was seized from the counter. Otherwise satisfactory conduct of the house allowed Mr. Chapman to be bound over for his good behaviour for 12 months and to pay costs. Edgar Chapman and wife Bertha Louise were charged Wednesday, 22nd January 1930 of fraudulently consuming electricity between 16th August and 19th December 1929. A pin had been discovered, inserted into the meter, in order to prevent it recording. Mrs. Chapman was bound in the sum of £10 and ordered to pay £3 7s costs, which included £2 2s advocate's fee. ( In January 1930 the consumption had been checked at 360 watts, comparing with 280 watts at the Denmark Arms, yet the previous meter readings had shown only 51s from the White Horse against 101s from the Denmark Arms) ALFRED RAMSEY Died Saturday 1st December 1934 - age 56. 25.01.1933 ALICE JANE RAMSEY (Ada Jane Ramsey 1948) Died September 1965 - age 79 1934 - 1965 Mr. BROWN 23.09.1965 WILLIAM POINTON (Died September 1973, shortly after moving to the Cardinal's Hat, Harleston) 08.09.1966 - 1973 JOHN POINTON by 01.1974 ROBERT & NINA HARDY 11.11.1985 PETER & JAN MILLS 05.1989 - 16.08.2015 -

July 1996 Licence not renewed at the Diss Brewster Sessions held Tuesday 14th February 1906. Future of the licence to be determined at the Adjourned licensing Meeting to be held on Tuesday 6th March 1906. At the adjourned meeting held Wednesday 14th March 1906 it was said that he house was frequented by a rather better class of customer than some other inns. Trade was an average of 34 barrels of draught beer, 109 dozen bottles of beer, 110 gallons of spirits and 4 dozen bottles of wine. Licensee William King agreed that he worked elsewhere but kept at home on Fridays and Saturdays. The smoking concerts held at the house were attended by a respectable class of people and he had a large number of signatures in favour of licence renewal. The magistrates said that only evidence given on oath would be accepted. Licence renewed. When being considered for closure by compensation, March 1930, it was said that the trade for the previous year was 129 barrels of beer and 63 gallons of spirits and wines. This had been the best year, with one exception, since 1922. The bottled beer trade was remarkable and was more than sold in any of the Brewer's other houses in Diss, Harleston, Bungay, Beccles or Halesworth. Grade II listed building offered for sale August 2012 for £330,000. Including open plan bar, pool room, ground floor beer cellar, bottle store and small enclosed smoking area behind. Private accommodation of lounge, kitchen, bathroom and four bedrooms.

See p.59 - ` Memories of Old Diss'  by Dennis Cross, published 1994