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Two-story Packhorse Inn with dormer windows, signage, and a Union Jack flag, with several people standing in front.

Packhorse, West End, Whittlesey cWWI

The Packhorse, West End, Whittlesey

History of The Packhorse

A 1900 Ordnance Survey map section showing streets and buildings with hatched outlines, marked with P.H. for public house.

Whittlesey OS 1900

1783 first appearance on map

1830 Thomas Curtis

1839 Joseph Chamberlain

1841 William Burdock

1858 Ann Burdock

1864 Thomas Baker

1869 Charles Bland Storey

1870 Horsegate fire. The Packhorse houses homeless.

1871 John Thomas Layton

180s James Hardy Redmill

c1916: James A Porteous

1920s William Serale

1930s George Williamson

1968 delicensed


Source: Millennium Memories of Whittlesey Number 9

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