The Barking Dickey, Westlegate, Norwich
This was a 19th century pub originally called The Light Dragoon or Light Horseman.
It became known as The Barking Dickey, a Norfolk phrase for ‘singing donkey’, after the badly painted sign that looked more like a braying donkey than a horse and soldier!
It is one of only five remaining thatched houses in the city that survived the devastating fire of 1507.
The former Dumfries Tavern in Chiswick End, Meldreth, Cambs was known as the “Dumb Flea”
Another good one, thanks. Worth mentioning that the Meldreth village website has more on the history of the Dumb Flea and other Meldreth pubs: http://www.meldrethhistory.org.uk/category_id__18_path__0p4p20p.aspx