David Tatum, boots, and Thomas Rutland, labourer, committed a breach of the peace by fighting on the premises on 7th April 1868. Each were fined 5s with 6s 6d costs.


Mr. Mahon provided a dinner in excellent style, Monday, 18th  June 1870, for the firm of Messrs. Thew & Son, with their wives and friends, celebrating their annual wayzgoose. ( A celebration normally held by printers in Autumn when the waze, or stubble was still in the ground, and at which feast, a goose was the head dish.)

In March 1936, Mr. Charles E. Gray is given as proprietor of one unlicensed and three licensed hotels in the town.
The Golden Lion was described as catering for a high-class business, but Mr. Gray said there was a restaurant for low-class business.
One hundred persons could be seated there and the charge for a meal was 2s 6d. "Only a very few excursionists had drinks with their meal".

``Piggies Paradise is open every Saturday night in the Blue Room for Dining & Dancing until nearly midnight'' as advertised 1967.

August 2024 - "Former nightclub on ground floor to be converted ito five bedrooms."

See page 95 of West Norfolk in Old Postcards - first published 1989