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Hempstead |
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Village History |
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Various Hempstead residents posing for the camera - c.1900 |
The White Horse Inn started off as a village beerhouse before becoming a licensed public house. It was first recorded in 1789, although it could have been running well before that. Morgans bought the pub from John Henry Gurney of Northrepps in 1896 and continued until they went into voluntary administration on 29th September 1961, at which point Bullards and Steward & Patteson took over the assets. The White Horse Inn then became a Bullards tied house until its closure on 26th April 1962. |
The first mention of Hempstead Post Office is in Kelly's Directory of 1879 and at that time, the White Horse was the designated Post Office, where John Neal was the landlord. However, the OS map of 1885 shows the Post Office to be situated in the small building attached to the north side of the White Horse. In 1896, Miss Matilda Neal, presumably John's daughter, is listed as postmistress and it would appear that the later Post Office was built between 1892 and 1896. |
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White Horse Inn to the left with the White Horse Cottages ahead - c.1916 |
A few years ago David Youngs related that two families who spent a considerable amount of time in the White Horse, usually got into a disgreement whenever they met and this was almost certain to escalate into a fight. The then landlord got so fed up with this that he eventually decreed that the families could only come in on separate evenings - one family were limited to a Friday night and the other to a Saturday night. |
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Village decked out for Coronation Day - May 1937 |
Toasting King George VI at midday on Coronation Day - 12th May 1937 left - right - Mrs Buchan (housekeeper to Cpt Mee of The Lodge), Mrs Charlie Baker (wife of the milkman at Red House Farm) Mrs Wrad, Rev Auden, Mrs John Hagen, Sydney Risborough (publican) Bill Hagen, Leslie Doy, Bob Withers |
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c.1955 |
An AA sign was once located here. ln front of the pub was a small yard flanked to the south by an outbuilding, since demolished, where the landlord kept his car. The sidewall of this shed ran close alongside the Street, and on this brick wall the sign was mounted - see the History page. |
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After closure in 1962, the White Horse was sold off to become a residential property and was renamed Wayside. |
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9th April 2017 |
19th October 2017 |
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O. S. Map 1905 Marked in red top - bottom Smithy - White Horse Inn - Post Office - Shop - School Courtesy of NLS map images |
Licensees |
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| John Balding | 1789-1794 |
| Thomas Wright | 1836-1846 |
| George Money & master shoemaker | 1851-1854 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Money | 1856-1863 |
| John Neal & farmer & overseer | 1864-1893 |
| Herbert Fabb | 1893 |
| Edmund Parker | 1897-1904 |
| Henry Williamson | 1908 |
| Edward Dixon | 1911 |
| Henry Williamson | 1911 |
| James Edward Spendlove | 1915 |
| James Edward Spendlove | 1916 |
| Sidney Alfred Riseborough | 1920 |
Sidney Alfred Riseborough |
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| Sidney Alfred Riseborough | 1925 |
| Sidney Alfred Riseborough | 1933 |
| Sidney Alfred Riseborough | 1937 |
| Stanley James Scarff | 1956 |
| Frederick George Farrow | 1959 |
| Robert F. Rhodes | 1960 |
| Leslie G. Sparrow | 1961 |
| John Kedge | 1962 |
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