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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