Licensees :
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SAMUEL LINGWOOD	1789
DANIEL LINGWOOD	1794
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WILLIAM BREEZE	1835 - 1836
ROBERT AYTON Age 57	1841
JOHN & MARY SMITH & shoemaker & 7 acres Age 70 in 1871	1844 - 1877
JOHN WRIGHT Died Q1 1892 - age 44	1879 - 1892
Mrs ELIZA WRIGHT Daughter of John & Mary Smith (Died Q2 1915 - age 72)	24.02.1892 - 1904
FREDERICK GEORGE RAYNER	12.10.1904 - 1909
WILLIAM FOSTER MORTIMER Joined army c1916.	13.10.1909
Mrs. LUCY MORTIMER	to 1919
WILLIAM FOSTER MORTIMER (Died December 1966 - age 86)	27.08.1919
Wednesday 25th January 1922 - One of twelve licensees in the area charged with allowing gambling games on licensed premises at Christmas. The Bench accepted that the breaking of the law was in ignorance and all were bound over at £5 each for one year and to pay costs of either 16/- or 10/- costs each, depending if two or only one witness had been required to attend.
ARTHUR AUGUSTUS COTTON Died December 1939 - age 54	14.02.1935
BASIL GARDINER	Here Dec 1955
JESSIE AMELIA GARDINER (Died October 1986 - age 94)	undated
ROY CATTERMOLE	by 1958
Mr. A. RAYMENT	to 1963
Mr. J. E. W. LACON	05.09.1963
GEOFFREY GEORGE OAKES (Died July 1999 - age 90)	by 1964
JAMES ARTHUR BROWN (Died April 1989 - age 79)	from 1966
LILLIAN MAY BROWN (Died July 1979 - age 63)	1969 - 1974
DON & RITA CAREY owners At New Buckenham Kings Head by May 1986.	by 03.1976
JUNE DOGGETT	here 04.1979
ALAN & JANETTE BROWN	by 10. 1979 - 1980
MIKE & JACKIE MIDDLETON	1981 - 1983
GEORGE & JANET JOHNS	03.05.1983
TERRY & THELDA BRYANT	by 06.1988 - 1990
Closed through 1992
GREG & GLYNIS ROLINGSON	1993 - 1995
KEVIN GREENACRE & JULIE CLARKE	by 05.1998 - 2013+
JULIE REYNOLDS	by 10.2019

Built in the early 18thC.

Extension dated 1925.

Thanks to Phil Bowden for the photographs October 2002.

In 1976, whist renovations were being carried out by the new owner, Mr. Carey, an old blue bottle was discovered mortared into the bar wall. It contained a message from Eliza Wright and was dated 26th September 1882. She recorded that building work was almost complete. The owners (?) were bricklayers Taylor, Lods and Dawson from Diss, the persons working on the changes were carpenters R. Todd and J. Downing, coopers, bricklayers and labourers were C. Brown, R. Thurlow and David Leftley.


Purchased February 1993 for £86,000.