No.34-36 High Street

Pub History

Notes

• No. 36a is at the rear of the Waggon & Horses and used to be part of Kitchen & Things (No.38 High Street).
  At one time the Newmarket Town Football Social Club used to be in this building, with a function room upstairs.
  
  Note from webmaster - my claim-to-fame regarding the Football Social Club is that this was the first venue that I played live music in,
  in around 1974.
  
  
• As can be seen in the 1930s picture the pub in the Photos section below, this used to also be a hotel, with the entrance to this being in the left-hand door.
  
  
• The entrance into the courtyard on the right-hand-side is into the site of the old cattle market - cattle and sheep used to be herded along the high street and into this entrance (see below).
  On the Interactive Map page you can hover over and see the original location of the old cattle market (just to right of the letters RCH in Fred Archer Way).
  There were also stables between the pub and cattle market as can be seen on the 1886 map of Newmarket.
  
  

  Sheep 'escaped' from the Cattle Market behind the Waggon & Horses - with PC Docking acting as shepherd in the High Street - c.1950s Many thanks to Peter Norman for the above photo - (click on the picture for a larger image) [I bet the sheep didn't know that they were right in front of a butcher's shop!]

• The Waggon & Horses is one of the oldest pubs in the town. The core of the building dates from the 16th Century although it was extended in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  
  
• English Heritage Listed Building Details:-
  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-275654-waggon-and-horses-public-house-newmarket
  
  

Waggon and Horses Public House Grade: II Date Listed: 10 March 1970 English Heritage Building ID: 275654



• On Chapman's 1787 map of Newmarket (shown below) the pub is identified as 'Waggon H.', but on the earlier 1768 map (shown further down below) it's shown as 'Rose' - clearly the name of the pub had changed sometime between these two dates.
  
  

• Chapman's Map of Newmarket 1787

• Chapman's Map of Newmarket 1768

  
  

• Building Changes
  

• Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
  Newmarket Urban District Council Records
  Reference EF 506
• Cattle market, rear of Waggon and Horses, High St, for the Newmarket and District Farmers' and Butchers' Auction Mart Co Ltd, Cambridge (John Flatman) EF 506/6/1/15/451 Apr 1913
• Alterations to stables, rear of Waggon and Horses in High St, for Newmarket and District Farmers' and Butchers' Auction Mart Ltd (John Flatman) EF 506/6/1/15/458 Aug 1913
  
  

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• Many thanks to Tony Pringle for his information about the history of the pub and the photos 'Waggon & Horses c.1930 & c.1930s'.
  
  
• Many thanks to Roger Norman for his postcard 'Waggon & Horses mid 1920s'.
  
  
• Photo 'Waggon & Horses Inn & Market House' by kind permission of the Newmarket Journal and the Newmarket Memories Facebook page.
  
  
• Many thanks to 'Old Newmarket' for the photo 'Waggon & Horses c.1920s'.