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Black and white street scene featuring the Steward and Patteson pub on the right and industrial buildings to the left.

North Street Wisbech 1957 looking west

Admiral Nelson (Rodney), 16 North Street, Wisbech

History of the Admiral Nelson

1795 John Wrangle, merchant, owned public house, formerly Rodney by now Admiral Nelson

1810 William Watson, author of ‘History of Wisbech’ and owner of Phillips  (Elgoods) Brewery.

1846 George Jennings

John Stoving

James Johnson

Henry Huggins

John Coulman

Herby Wright

Robert Roughton

George Hackney

George & Eliza Jarvis

Herbert Bedford

1914 licence removed under Compensation Act

Watch an clock repair shop

(source: The Inns and Taverns of Wisbech – a survey from the earliest times to 1950 by Arthur Artis Oldham, 1993)

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