A 1920 photograph shows the then new ‘Waggon and Horses Hotel’. It had been completely rebuilt on the site of the earlier ‘Wagon and Horses’, clearly marked on the 1905 OS Map and recorded in a photograph taken just after the railway bridge was built over Market Place, in 1897. That same year, Matthew Henry Habershon published his ‘researches’ on Chapeltown, where he refers to the ‘White Horse’ inn. He writes: ‘The ‘White Horse’ public house in the Market Place has upon its signboard the date 1720. The other old house, the ‘Wagon and Horses’, is no doubt as ancient.’
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