I have recently acquired this amazing postcard showing the White Swan in Queen Street. The landlord at this time was David James who ran the pub from 1904 to c1911. The earliest reference I have found for the White Swan is from a tithe document dated 1782, but I believe others have found the Swan to be even older!As you can see from the notice to the left of the picture, Mr James also had a horse and trap for hire. Could this be his in front of his pub perhaps?
This wonderful photo taken by Starbuck c1910 shows (I believe) town council members, outside of the Waverley Hotel.
This was first built in 1878 and opened as the British Workman & Temperance Hotel under Mr S. Naylor. However, in 1880 it was decided that the hotel was to be renamed the Waverley Hotel. This lasted for many years, in the 1940-50s what was a Temperance hall became a dance floor which later in 1959, also became a cinema. In 1960 though Whittingham & Baty bought the property, in desperate need of more room, ideal for putting machines for printing in the buildings to the rear, and the front on Queen Street became a garage shop as part of the Market Rasen Motor Co with a petrol pump out front. The Waverley Ballroom remained hosting dance nights, bingo and the cinema. Then in the late 70s, the front shop became a stationary shop, as part of Whittingham & Baty, and the printing works continued to the back. The "Mail Office" as it was locally known closed its doors c 2012 and another stationary shop Something Special took over. This remained for around 6 years before the stationary shop closed down to become a green grocers - Rose & Berries.
The picture seen above is an original taken by Starbuck and mounted on one of his picture mounts (with the photo itself being 14.5" x 11.5"). Many thanks to Lindsay Willoughby for the photo and other kind gifts.
In the Mkt Rasen Mail from 1879, we can see some of the drinks available at the British Workman
The document to the left is a tenancy agreement between James Hole & Co and George Mawer & Co for the George Inn, in what is now George Street.
The advert above was seen later in the year in the Market Rasen Mail
Before the buildings on the West side of George Street were built, the George would have been on the East side of the Market Place.
My earliest evidence to date of the George is in 1780 where the landlord is William Isaac, however I believe that there is evidence out there that the George is much older than this.
This rare piece of stone flagon shows J.L. Thornton at the White Hart Inn. This dates from 1834 when Thornton moved to the White Hart after occupying the Gordon Arms, and the Dolphin prior to that. He moved on to the Saracen's Head in Lincoln in 1851 and W. Goodson moved in. Many thanks to Pete Spilman for this.
This shows the White Hart around the turn of the 20th Century. More of a hotel than an Inn one would think to look at, but a coaching Inn none the less as well as a Post Office in the 1850s. (and also known as the White Hart Hotel with earliest reference I have found being 1836!). 1740 is the earliest reference I have for the White Hart from an article in the Stamford Mercury, but I understand it goes back much earlier than this. It was a desired society meeting place, a place where cock fighting was held in the 1740s, and in 1800 the forming of the White Hart Friendly Society which was to go on to introduce horse racing to Market Rasen.
Tankard from the White Lion public house, formerly situated in Oxford Street.
The first mention found to date for the White Lion was under the occupation of George Axe in the 1841 Pigot's Directory, believed to be previously known as The Plough from the early 1800s. The White Lion remained up until July 1963 when landlady Mrs Godson closed the pub. Since then the building has been a residential property. Many thanks to Pete Spilman for the Tankard.
This is a section of a Starbuck photo of Oxford Street showing the White Lion as it was, followed by a Market Rasen Mail clipping from 1963 showing the White Lion closing it's doors for the last time.
Bottle from The Greyhound Inn in Rasen which to all you youngsters out there was known to be the Chase and now the Co op funeral parlour stands. However, an Abstract Title document found in Lincoln Archives for 14 King Street, shows that the Greyhound originally started life on the North side of the road and was moved to its latterly resting place somewhere around 1780 by George Tennyson (the grandfather of the famous Alfred Lord Tennyson).
"... All that messuage and tenement or dwelling house situate stands and being in Market Rasen aforesaid and built up in the ground where a certain messuage tenement or Inn called the Greyhound and buildings there to formerly stood”
So although the local story is true that a wooden panel was found dated 1639 inside the Greyhound, the fact that this made the Greyhound Rasen's oldest pub is not necessarily true, it just meant the building was of that age, it didn't become the Greyhound for another 140 years! We don't know however how long the pub had been in it's previous location. The building was demolished in 1969 and the Chase was built in its place.
This postcard looking towards the Market Place from King Street shows the Greyhound Inn on the right
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