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NORWICH ROAD DISS HUNDRED - -
DISS HUNDRED REGISTERS taken 18th September 1789 & 19th September 1794
LACONS  
WHITBREAD  
Licensees :
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JAMES HOWLETT 1789 - 1794
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JAMES CRACKNELL 1832 - 1846
WILLIAM ROGERS
age 35 in 1851
(Went to Grapes Inn, Norwich, by November 1851)
1850 - 1851
HENRY BASS
& coachmaker
1854 - 1858
WILLIAM KERRY
Age 59 in 1861
1861 - 1865
ROBERT BALLS
& cattle dealer
13.12.1865 - 1875
JOHN EVERSON
& mail cart contractor
27.10.1875 - 04.1878
JOHN GRIMSON
& carpenter
24.04.1878 - 1883
JOHN FREDERICK WOODCOCK
& blacksmith
12.09.1883 - 1902
JAMES SLADE 22.10.1902 to 10.1903
FREDERICK STEBBINGS HOLL 14.10.1903 - 1908
Mr. WOODCOCK to 1911
ROBERT REEVE
Died 15th September 1954
(Leaving a daughter and a sister)
11.10.1911 - 1954
KATIE & WINIFRED REEVE 09.1954
WALTER THOMAS 10.1964
GEORGE HILL 1972 - 1978
BARRY & STEPHANIE WATERFIELD 08.05.1978 - 1980+
LIZ & BERNIE SEARLE by 07.1985
PAULINE & STAN BRATLEY by 12.1987 - 1988
LES & CAROLINE ..... by 12.1990



  On Wednesday 20th December 1911  ex-landlord John Frederick Woodcock (or perhaps Frederick John Woodcock, his son) sang "Sewing Machine" and "Trotting Horse" to Ralph Vaughan Williams who was visiting the area collecting traditional songs.

(Information thanks to the researches of Alan Helsdon 2017)
 

The GREYHOUND - Scole c1950
c1950 - Lacons ales & stout on offer.

Also given as the RACING GREYHOUND

Included in September 1789 Diss Hundred Register

On Wednesday 13th October 1830, a Corporal and a Private of the Dragoon Guards, stationed in Norwich, were escorting a deserter, Barnard Bishop, to Chatham. They stopped off at the Scole Greyhound where they "imprudently got intoxicated". The deserter took advantage and escaped. For the neglect of duty, the Corporal received Three Hundred lashes and the Private, Two Hundred.

Mr. Robert Reeve was granted one hour's extension for the occasion of the `Rational Anniversary Dinner' on 28th November 1911.

Original house demolished and above house built in 1907.

Advertised December 1987 as the RACING GREYHOUND.



See page 84 of Memories of Old Diss by Dennis Cross - Pub. 1994