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Two-story yellow brick building on a corner with a dark doorway and a Black Horse Lane street sign in the foreground.

16 High Street, Swavesey

16 High Street, Black Horse, Swavesey

History of the Black Horse, Swavesey

A 1901 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing Swavesey streets, buildings, land plots, and identified local landmarks.

Swavesey High Street map OS 1901

1871 Black Horse

George Few, shoemaker, b Willingham

Drusilla, shoemaker’s wife, b Willingham

Edrick, b Willingham

Minna M, b Swavesey

Victor C, b Swavesey


1881 (38 High Street)

Joseph Metcalfe, 46, licensed victualler and thatcher, b Swavesey

Sarah, 46, b Swavesey

Mary A, 20, dressmaker, b Swavesey

Thomas, 15, b Swavesey

Joseph, 12, b Swavesey

John, 10, b Swavesey

Albert, 6, b Swavesey

Martha Key, boarder, 1, b Swavesey


1891 (3 High Street) the Black Horse, Pub House

Joseph Metcalfe, thatcher and licensed victualler

Sarah

Jane, 27, dressmaker, b Swavesey

Thomas, 25, tailor

Albert, 16, thatcher’s labourer


1901

John M Hodson, 54, thatcher and innkeeper, b Swavesey

Rosetta, 54, b Swavesey

Rose H, 27, dressmaker, b Swavesey

Kate, 22, dressmaker, b Swavesey

Bert, 16, carpenter apprentice, b Swavesey

Harry, 12


This pub closed in 1912.

Black and white postcard showing a village street lined with brick buildings, with several small figures standing on the road.

High Street c.1900, (L) general stores of Harry Williams, Post Office with queue, Sir Harry Smith pub which became Post Office, (R) Black Horse public house, bake house of Mr George Key taken over by son Henry until it closed c.1947, Mr Walter Spalton’s butchers closed in 1970s. (Alan Lee Swavesey collection)

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