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Street view in Wisbech with The Ship Defiance pub on the right, brick buildings, parked cars, and a bicycle on the sidewalk.

The Ship Defiance, Old Market, Wisbech, 1957 (Lilian Ream)

Ship Defiance, Old Market, Wisbech

History of Ship Defiance

1846 – 1853 George Cave. Pub was also known as ‘Ship in Defiance.’

1860 – 1872 John Cunnington

1872 William Elener

1873 to let

1885 to let

1886 to let

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

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