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A two-story brick Railway Hotel building with painted signs and a low greenhouse structure attached to its side corner.

Railway Hotel Whittlesey c1900

Railway Hotel, Whittlesey

History of the Railway Hotel

A detail from a 1900 Ordnance Survey map showing the Railway Hotel, railway lines, and cattle pens in Whittlesey.

Whittlesey OS 1900

Two men and two women in Edwardian clothing posed together outdoors in front of a wooden fence, with two seated and two standing.

Railway Hotel, Whittlesey, Goodburn family circa 1910

1846 First train through Whittlesey

1850 Station Hotel appears: Maria Hillyard Tansley

1858 Mrs S Woods

1861 John Carter

1881 George Mark

1900 Frederick Cook

1908 George Thomas Goodburn

1920s Frederick Butt

1925 Alfred E Rolt


Source: Millennium Memories of Whittlesey Number 9

 

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