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 The sign c1930 Note spelling as Southborough. Village name found as Southbergh to 1896 but Southburgh in 1900 and onwards. In a court case held at East Dereham on Friday 21st May 1859, the licensee name was reported to be William Sayer and the location given as Southborough. The dispute was if a half sovereign or a sixpence had been given by William Green to the servant of the licensee, to pay for beer and tobacco. Bricklayer Green had offered a coin to pay for 2 pints of beer and for some tobacco. The serving girl had given the coin to Mrs Sayer who assumed it was for a single pint of beer and since beer cost 2d a pint she returned 4d change. Green then said that he had given a half sovereign to pay for two pints of beer (4d) and for tobacco (1½d) and expected more change. Mrs Sayer could not find a half sovereign in her possession and a witness claimed to hear Green later say that he had he had made a mistake. The Judge voiced his opinion that it was Green who was trying to `do' the publican and the verdict was, that it was a sixpence.
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