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.
