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Picture source: 1903	Picture source: Timothy Keane
The Flying Horse was situated at Exmouth Place, 149 Mare Street. This was a famous old Hackney coaching inn.  It was probably established by 1593 and was reputed to have been used as a posting house in Elizabethan times as it lay on what was then the London to Newmarket road.  Whilst a fairly impressive, rambling old building, photographs show that it was in a rather sorry state by the turn of the twentieth century  and it eventually closed in 1914, there being little call by then for overnight accommodation so close to London.  In its latter years it had been a Whitbread Brewery pub.  The building seems to have been demolished in the 1930s.
Source: Stephen Harris
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