Licensees :
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?	1848
ROGER ROBERTS & master cooper age 29 in 1851	1850 (licence renewed 06.05.1851)
EDWARD WHITEROD Age 46 in 1861	06.01.1861
ROGER ROBERTS Went to Hedenham MERMAID	06.07.1861
JAMES HOWARD	11.10.1867 - 1868
Mr. HOWARD (Licence transferred from James Howard to another family member?)	15.01.1868
GEORGE SERGENT / SERGEANT Age 37 in 1871	January 1869 - 1872
WILLIAM SMITH	1875 - 1888
Mrs MARIA SMITH Age 77 in 1891	1890 - 1892
L. WOOLLARD	to 10.1895
JOHN ELLIS VINCENT Age 62 in 1911	22.10.1895 - 1915
Mrs WALTER FRANCIS	1916 - 1925
THOMAS EDWARD BLYTHE	1929
RICHARD HENRY SHIRLEY	1933
FRED WETHERINGTON (& wife Lizzie)	1937 - c1945
BERTIE BRINGLOE	Dec 1945 - Jan 1964
DAVID POINTER	Jan 1964 - June 1975
DAVID TURNBULL	1976 - 1977
DICK & SANDY FRANKLIN managers for D. Turnbull.	30.11.1977

1997

On Wednesday 29th November 1848 a numerous party of gentlemen sat down to an excellent and substantial dinner, to celebrate the obtaining of a wine and spirit licence for the house and to mark the very high esteem to which the worthy landlord was held, by his friends.
The company separated at a late hour, highly pleased at the cheerful evening they had enjoyed.

George Sergeant, formerly of the HOPE INN, Harleston, announced 30th January 1869 that he had taken LORD NELSON INN.

Given as the LORD NELSON HOTEL in 1920


Plans to convert into 2 private dwellings being favourably considered by the local council August 1998 - Closed soon after.

May 1999