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White Lion, South Brink, Wisbech, 1869 (Wisbech Museum)

White Lion Hotel, Wisbech

History of the White Lion

White Lion, South Brink, Wisbech, 1884 (Lilian Ream)

Previously called the Queen’s Head, then the Shoulder of Mutton.

John Cuthbert

Henry Southwell

1762 John Southwell

1765 Mary Southwell

1773 James Ellerker

1789 Elizabeth Poynton, licensee Elizabeth Allen

1792-1796 Benjamin Ward landlord

1808 sold to William Watson, Sarah Rose licensee

1820 sold to James Oldman, tenant

1835 sold to Thomas Goodall, tenant

1846-1869 Joseph Bishop

1869 bought by John Halford, manager J Parsons

1874 J Parsons owner

1883 The White Lion Temperance Hotel

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

White Lion Temperance Hotel c1915, Wisbech

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