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Three Horseshoes, Church Street, Little Shelford by Fanny Wale

The Three Horse Shoes, Church Street, Little Shelford

History of the Three Horseshoes

Approximate position

Fanny Wale writes in “Shelford Parva”:

This Public House stood by the side of Church Road [sic] on slightly raised ground at the west end of the wall which encloses the garden belonging to Mr and Mrs Lofts. It belongd to the brewer Headly of Great helford and only his beer might be sold there…. In 1907 the County Council took away the license of the Three Horse Shoes, and it was bought by Mr Lockhart, the sub-librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge, who married Hilda, a daughter of Arthur Austin of West House, and he pulled it down in July 1908 and built a new red brick habitation on the same ground…..

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