The White Hart
Back to Old Ely in pictures
With thanks to May and Dick Taylor (ex landlords of the White Hart) for use of the photograph and painting.
A horse and cart are in the passageway. painted by local artist Sue Galloway.
The
White Hart in the Market Square, Ely may have been in existence in the 14th
Century and certainly did in the 15th. There is some 15th Century
timber framing in the passageway of the building which can still be seen. Due
to re-development the White Hart is now Tindalls and Size-Up. When Ely became
the centre of drainage operations in the 17th Century the White
Hart was used as a meeting place. In the 18th Century The White
Hart hosted coroners inquests etc and used when discussions took place in 1816
between the Littleport Rioters and Magistrates of Ely.
The
White Hart was a coaching house as it had plenty of bedrooms and ample space
at the rear for stabling.
LANDLORDS
1661-
Isaac
Skinner
1722-
Abraham
Byam
1776-
Jacob
Sallis
1799-
Thomas
Wood
1813-
John
Meadowes
1817-1828
William Beecroft
1830-1857
Matthew Scott
1858-1864
James
Henry Smith
1865-
Joseph
Pickup
1866-
James
Cheshire
1867-1869
Anne
Cheshire
1870
Arthur Frank Thomas
1871-1876
William Hodson
1877
Walter Moore
1878
Arthur Hall
1879
Charles H. Teakle
1880 & 1881
William Turner
1892- 1894
Ethelbert Brunton Kent
1895
Jeffrey Richard
1896-1899
H. Egelton
1900-
1903 & 1904
Daniel Keeton
1905-1914
George C. Palmer
1915-1920
Tom Hood
1921 & 1930
John Scarfe
1931-1941
John Edward
Cresswell
1942
Rosetta Martha Burrows
1943-1953
George
William Barwick
1953-1958
Frederick
Arthur Bidwell
1959
William J.F. Baxter
1961-1975
Alec Ernest
Spencer
1975-1987 Richard C. Taylor