Tally Ho! Inn at Great Wilbraham

[Keith Sherwood]

Rosie,
What a coincidence, this is.  I used to walk along the Trumpington Rd from Cambridge when I first came to live here in the early 70's to have a drink in the Tally Ho ( and The Green Man...and The Unicorn...)
Pretty sure that THIS Tally Ho was demolished some time ago, though...
keith
Wait a minute, perhaps it was another pub on the High Street that disappeared, not the Tally Ho, as I think that's actually still there....!

[Keith Sherwood]

Rosie,
It was The Grasshopper that disappeared, just remembered.  Obviously too many pints sunk in the village in my youth are playing havoc with my memory...
keith

[rosie99]

Keith

I have also savoured the liquid refreshment in the Tally Ho Trumpington, about 5 years ago then on to the Unicorn for lunch.  I had to stay sober though for the coach journey home. I will return. 

Rosie

[Keith Sherwood]

Rosie,
I do hope it wasn't you who had to drive that coach home...!
Now where has S.J Dectective got to since Thursday?  We need to discover how much about the subsequent fate of the Tally Ho he/she already knows.  Will certainly pay a visit to Gt. Wilbraham next week to have a look along the High Street, and maybe ask a few questions of elderly residents (if there are any left living there)...
keith

[S.J Detective]

Hi Keith & Rosie99,

Great to hear from both of you and many thanks for your time and help in looking for Tally Ho information.

I know absolutely nothing about the Tally Ho, apart from what's on Census returns and these give it as being on High Street, Grt Wilbraham.  I had found the 1948 planning application but wondered if it was redeveloped soon after and demolished in phase two once the rear had been developed?

I know Joseph Pilgrim died sometime before 1871 and that Elizabeth (Ireson) his wife carried on as Publican until at least 1891.  I don't have a death date for Elizabeth Pilgrim.  Not been able to locate her or the Tally Ho in the 1901 census yet.  That might be useful if anyone can locate it in 1901 and who was living there?

It would be great if you could take some photos of the area Keith and ask the locals about the Tally Ho.  I've not been able to get over to the Cambs area since I started this research a few years ago, so any photos and snippets of local history would be very gratefully received.  Sounds like you know the area and it's Inn's very well Keith?

My Grandparents (mothers side) were from Grt Wilbraham/Lit Wilbraham area so we have strong family connections with the area.  All I have seen recently is the Google mapping imagery so would be nice to see the village from the ground.

As you say the Tally Ho in Trumpington is refered to a lot but the Tally Ho at Grt Wilbraham seems to have been lost in the mists of time, perhaps as you say some locals might remember it?

Correction to my original post - The Gate Inn was in actual fact in Little Wilbraham.

Many thanks again, I look forward to hearing from you again soon.  Sounds like I owe you a pint at a local hostelry.

SJ Detective

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, S.J.,
Thanks for all that additional info...
And perhaps if The Gate Inn was in Lt. Wibraham it might possibly be the same place as The Hole in the Wall at 2, High Street which has been a pub in this village "for 500 years or so".  The present gastro pub was reopened 2 years ago after refurbishment.
There's a slight chance that I might get out that way later this afternoon and see whether I can find anything out, at both the Wilbrahams...
keith
p.s. It looks as though the only pub in existence today in Gt. Wilbraham is The Carpenters Arms, also in the village's High Street

[Keith Sherwood]

S.J.
Went to the Wilbrahams early evening, and although the Hole in The Wall was still closed I took 2 or 3 pictures of the outside; then a lady came out wanting to know what I was up to - so I asked her whether the pub had ever been known by a different name.  She thought it had always been the name it was now, but I wouldn't take it as gospel quite yet.
Gt. Wilbraham had just the one pub in the High Street, The Carpenters Arms - didn't look wonderfully exciting, so we drove past.  But I did take snaps of both churches - and a white-flannelled cricket match in the next field once I'd heard the evocative thwack of willow on leather over the churchyard wall in Gt. W.
Did have a very quick look for IRESON gravestones there too, but there were so many illegible inscriptions.
So, if you'd like me to send the photos I took, please PM me with your e-mail address and I'll try and master the technology!
I had fun doing it all, and treated myself to a meal and a pint in the next village, Fulbourn, by the way, before I headed home again.
Regards, keith
N.B. I suppose I could have killed a few more birds with the same stone by having a look for members of your HANCOCK family in Fulbourn churchyard, but by then I was too busy murdering a pint of cider and a steak and ale pie in The Bakers Arms...

[SeeBee]

Hello,
The Tally Ho! is still there in Great Wilbraham on the High Street. Although it is now a private house I have been picking my Mum's brains and she thinks it was still a pub in the 1950's and possibly 1960's. The building of houses and bungalows certainly never happened in 1948 probably because the village didn't have mains drainage. The last publicans however did have a bungalow built in the back garden which they moved into before selling the pub although by then it hadn't been a pub for some time.
The Gate pub however was in Little Wilbraham and not Great, this sadly has been demolished and there are two houses built on the site one named "The Gate". Harry Cross who was Charles' son was the organist at Lt. Wilb church he retired from playing the organ in 1965 at the age of 87 having begun in 1897 at the age of 17. When he started his wages were £2 a year and when he retired they were £12. In all those years he played the organ at two services every Sunday and missed only one Sunday in 1918 when he contracted Flu! There is photographof Harry Cross in the vestry at Little Wilbraham church.

[Keith Sherwood]

SeeBee,
What a wonderful piece of informative local knowledge!  Thanks so much for that, after my trip out there I was very curious myself, and had indeed spotted a house called Gate House, I think, in Lt. Wilbraham.
Hope SJ is still watching this thread, as your post pretty much answers all the questions...
Very best wishes,
keith