Photo above: Wonderful painting of Highcross Street, (by John Fulleylove 1845-1908) Nags Head on the right. The inn stood at top end of then Highcross Street, corner of Guildhall Lane and Jubilee Square.
We can find a Nags Head in recognizance orders 1726.
A celebrated coaching inn, run by the Thornloe family in the 1790-1814
One report tells of a 19 ½ pint jug dating from 1824. Tradition had it that if a customer could lift the jug without bending his arm he was entitled to the contents.
Ran for many years by Henry Mansfield, 1814-1848. Numerous auctions were held here. Henry Pole c1848-61
1861 George Hill sold his Carpenter & Cabinet makers business to take on the Nags Head until c1866 followed by Henry Webb. Webb was to move to Crown & Anchor Millstone Lane c1875 it seems Henry Webb would take the Nags Head name with him to Millstone Lane.
(Henry Pole had moved to the Swan with Two Necks. c 1864.)
Was Henry Webb the last landlord of the Nags Head c1875 ???