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A monochrome street scene shows a two-story building with a thatched roof, next to a person walking toward an open doorway.

Wheatsheaf, Eastgate, Whittlesey

Wheatsheaf, Eastgate, Whittlesey

History of the Wheatsheaf

Detail from a black and white map showing the labels Wheatsheaf (P.H.) and Eastgate alongside outlines of building footprints.

Wheatsheaf, Eastgate, Whittlesey

1830 John Holmes (address Scaldgate)

1839 William Baker

1846 Joseph Lovell

1900 Edward Setchfield

1908 Henry Searle

1930 Leonard Blythe

Millennium Memories of Whittlesey Number 9 reports that in the 1960s the highlight of a Saturday evening here was watching someone eat a whole raw egg in its shell.

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