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The Whale Inn was situated at 48 Main Ridge, being demolished in 1974 to make way for the inner relief road. This pub got its name from a whale skeleton It housed and for which admission was charged to view. The building was two and a half storeys high with a timber panelled front with etched glass panels and toplights to the ground floor. The first floor had two sash windows and an oriel window with a flat roof to the right. The pantile pitched roof had 3 dormer windows and a ridge chimney stack.

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This pub was owned by the Soames Brewery and sold to Steward & Patteson in 1949.

Adam Cartwright (August 2012)

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