Licensees :
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WILLIAM WHEWELL age 53 in 1851 & earthenware (dealer?) Died 17th May 1854 - age 57	*1846 - 1854
ELIZABETH WHEWELL age 58 in 1861 age 70 in 1871 (Listed only as shopkeeper in 1877) died December 1885	1858  - 1872
JAMES BIRD	1875 - 1876
FRANCIS JAMES CLARKE (committed suicide by hanging 21st October 1878 - age 36)	*1877
SARAH CLARKE (widow) (remarried William Barnes)	*1879 - 1880
WILLIAM BARNES bricklayer age 23 in 1881	1881 - 1883
ALBAN OSBORNE harness maker age 36 in 1891 (Harness maker only 1888)	1890 - 1904
WILLIAM BERNARD DUNCAN	10.10.1905 -  1909
ALBERT EDWARD OSBORNE	here 09.1916

Charles James, a blacksmith, late of Snetterton, was charged of stealing two cloth coats from the house of Sarah Clarke on 19th November 1880.
At the December hearing he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three calendar months' detention with hard labour.

c1897

Lot No. 31 in the sale of the Diss Lower Brewery Thursday 30th March 1876. Purchased by Youngs, Crawshay & Co.  


Alban Osborne owned the Saddlers & Harness making shop seen to the left of the public house. A newspaper article dated 4th June 1914 records the death of Mr Osborne. Apparently he accidentally shot himself in the back of the head whilst walking backwards through a hedge. The inquest was held at the White Lion and the jury were satisfied that a branch had caught his gun trigger.

Licence unconditionally renewed at the East Harling Brewster Sessions held Monday 13th February 1906.
Licensee Mr. Duncan advised that trade had increased somewhat since he took the house in October 1905. Brewers Youngs, Crawshay and Youngs confirmed that trade over the past three years had averaged 109 barrels and 390 dozen bottles of beer annually. A good trade for a country house and it was required by the parish.

The decision to renew the licence was postponed at the sessions held Monday 14th February 1916. It was considered that the division had a redundancy of public houses.  The Prince of Wales at Great Ellingham and the Angel at Attleborough were the other houses included in the list to be determined.