The Anchor, 8 Nene Quay, Wisbech
History of the Anchor
Listed Building
Early C19 inn. Local, red-brown brick, hipped slate roof.
1792 Charles Bradley landlord
1845 Samuel Rhodes landlord, Bishop of Bangor owner
1863 George Walker
1865 trouble at inn reported by mayor
1866 John Wilson, licensee. He was leader of the orchestra at the Douglas Theatre.
George Richar
Henry Simpson
William Jacob Ward
John Hales
A lagg
1921 closed under Compensation Act
Anchor Chambers and Coal Merchants Office
(source: The Inns and Taverns of Wisbech – a survey from the earliest times to 1950 by Arthur Artis Oldham, 1993)
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