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A monochrome drawing shows sailing vessels moored along a stone embankment lined with multi-story buildings and a pub sign.

Half Moon, Nene Quay, Wisbech c1854 (Samuel Smith)

Half Moon, Nene Quay, Wisbech

History of the Half Moon

1840 Simon Hardy

1846 Susan Slater

1848 Richard Slater charged with allowing persons of disreputable character to assemble in pub 6th June 1848. Convicted fined 40s.

1855 George Reed

1856 John Stoving

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

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