Photo above: 1960s photo of the White Horse, the ground floor alteration at odds with the Georgian upper floors.
Another to fall in the Haymarket development of the 1970s.
1839 Ancient Orders of Druids opened a lodge here called ‘Hope & Charity’.
Two families seem to dominate as licensees for the first hundred years.
1840 Joseph Brown was the owner.
June 1844, Henry Staines was landlord as he transferred the licence to John Sawbridge.
Circa 1854 William Brown was the owner. 1878, Charlotte Brown. 1881, Robert Monk, back to Charlotte Brown, 1892. William Brown, 1907. 1908, Arthur Sturgess. 1921, Cecil Sturgess until circa 1938.
Horace Webb was then licensee, 1940. Arthur Farren, 1944. Leslie York, and in the early 1950s Frank Ashton.
The Pinfold Lounge, 1962. Compulsory purchased, 1970.
We often have rose tinted glasses when reminiscing of the ‘old days’ but the town centre pubs have always had a ‘reputation’ and the 1960s were no different. Many of the ‘townies’ lived in the nearby Victorian terraces, soon to be called ‘slums’ such as the Wharf St. area, it didn’t take much for a ‘ruck’ to start.
I know. I used and lived in the town a lot late 50s -60s. I had my share of fat lips and black eyes. Happy days.
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