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Old Crown Gracious Street Whittlesey

Old Crown, Gracious Street, Whittlesey

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1830 George Hollis, Old Crown list as the ‘Crown’

1839 William Burdock

1841 George Tebbutt

1850 Frederick Samuel Mills

1858 John Vine

29th May, day of Town Feast, there was a major fire. A hovel next to the alley behind the Old Crown caught fire. Thirteen houses in Gracious Street, High Causeway and Syers Lane were destroyed as well as the Crown Inn and the Nag’s Head Inn.

1864 Alice Vine

1873 John Blunt

1875 Henry Drake

1879 Thomas Johnson

1881 John Lindsey

1892 Oliver Hailstone

1896 Arthur Sismey

1920s Frederick Watts

1960s Harry Hoskins

Source: Millennium Memories of Whittlesey Number 9

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