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Picture source: Hamish Galloway
The Three Horseshoes was situated on Church Street. This grade-II listed pub is now a private dwelling, named Horseshoe Cottage, having closed in 1922. This pub was present by the 1830s when the publican was John Stokes.
I was born in Woodhurst (Huntingdon) in 1938.  My birthplace was the old thatched house purchased in 1922 by my grandparents - it had been the Horseshoes pub until that time.  My grandparents told me it was called "The 3 Horseshoes" when they bought it (for £200!), but that may be incorrect. It was sold as a pub to another buyer the previous year for £400.00, but for my grandparents it was a retirement home.  There were two large bread ovens and a lead water pump inside the house. The garbage dump contained many broken clay pipes and beer? bottles (the type with glass "marbles" in the neck).
Hamish Galloway (Canada)
Listed building details:
Late C17 or early C18 cottage. Three unit plan. Colour-washed brick. Thatched roof with tumbled parapet gable ends on kneelers. Ridge stack and end stack. One-storey and attics. Three dormers. Four casements at ground-floor. Entry opposite stack. Two thatching hooks on wall. Interior has large inglenook fireplace.
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Date of photo: c1900	Picture source: Clive Stokes