Thanks to Clarke (see below) we now have an accurate date for this report. This is before the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed in 18751 so they were dependent of insurance company fire engines.
There’s lots of interest to be gleaned from this. First that the White Horse, as well as being a pub, was also a farm at that time and the buildings to left and right were also were involved in farming and the breeding of livestock (some of which perished in the fire). The pub itself seems to have had a lucky escape.
It’s interesting to see old village names in there too. The landlord of the pub was then a Mr Easy2, a name which still lives on in the village today. The premises to the south of the pub, which was consumed in flames, was occupied by Mr Coulson, a name which lives on as Coulson Close, and Mr Gunnell lost six or seven coomb of barley and again we now have a Gunnell Close.
Created by The Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal on 13th September 1851.
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