Licensees :
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JOHN NAYLOR Died 1865 - See below	to 1825
JOHN CAPON BROWN	to 1828
JOHN BARTON	1836
ROBERT FULLER Age 40 in 1841	1841 - 1845
GEORGE FULLER	1846
ROBERT VINCE age 36 in 1851 & master blacksmith	1851 - 1856
JAMES COPEMAN	1858
WILLIAM SAYLE	1859 - 1868
16th May 1859 - Fine of £1 and 11s costs for permitting drunkenness in his house on 4th May.
JOHN WARD	1869
ROBERT YOUNG	1871 - 1873
Monday, 29th May 1871 - Fine of 10s and 8s costs for drinking in Forby's beerhouse (Carpenters Arms) on 14th May, during prohibited hours.
Monday, 27th January 1873 - Fine of 10s and 11s costs for being drunk on licensed premises on 17th January.
Monday, 28th July 1873 - Fine of £2 and 17s costs for being drunk on licensed premises. "An old offender, this being his third offence."
GEORGE FORBY	here 1874
Monday 12th October 1874 - Fine of 5s and 11s costs for being drunk in the George & Dragon
Mrs SUSAN FORBY Married John Isgate 21st October 1875	1875
JOHN ISGATE died 10th March 1877	1875 - 1877
Mrs SUSAN ISGATE Married Edward Fincham 26th May 1878	1877 - 1878
EDWARD FRANK FINCHAM Committed suicide by hanging, Wednesday, 12th August 1885.	1879 - 1885
Monday 16th January 1882 - Fine of 10s and 17s costs, and license endorsed for permitting drunkenness on 26th December 1881.
Mrs SUSAN FINCHAM widow	1885
FRANCISCO PALMER	29.09.1885
CHARLES PARKER	1888
J BATEMAN	1890
ROLPH GRIMMER	1891 - 1892
GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH HOWE	1896 - 1902
ALFRED BELL	1904 - 1910
ROBERT JOHNSON Age 31 in 1911	11.07.1910
HERBERT JAMES WICKS	13.11.1913
FRANK WALDEN	08.01.1923
BERTHA WALDEN	03.03.1924
FRANK PHILIP WALDEN	12.10.1925
ARTHUR JOHN RAYNER	18.07.1927
WILLIAM LAWS	30.09.1929
ERIC WILLIAM CROSS	04.11.1946
JOSEPH HENRY NIGHTINGALE Died April 1963 - age 66	20.09.1948

It was reported Saturday 25th November 1865 that John Naylor, born 29th May 1748, had died on 30th October 1865, at the age of 117. He had retired from the George & Dragon in 1825 having run the CROWN at Downham before that.

For sale by auction Monday 7th March 1808.
Part of the extensive estate of the Assignees of William Fisher, brewer of Chatteris. Listed in sale notification as the GEORGE, with four cottages.

Offered To Let July 1828, including Stables and Orchard.


On Thursday 7th July 1870 a group of labouring men entered the house at about seven o'clock in the morning. By eleven o'clock they had consumed three pints of raw brandy.
Whilst they were carousing, William Goat, on old man with a wooden leg, passed by and they called him in. Mr. Goat was then treated to three measures of brandy, the first being about one gill, which he drank in three draughts. At about eleven o'clock he sat down and rested his head in his hand. It was soon after this that he was found to be dead. At the inquest the following day it was said that the brandy had hastened his death, but cause was the result of acute bronchitis and serious congestion of the lungs.
The Jury wished the Coroner to caution the landlord against permitting people to drink raw spirits at such an early hour and in such immoderate quantities.
(Unfortunately the landlord is not named in the report)


Address also as Downham Street.