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Reply ID 48305

[img]http://images.kodakgallery.eu.com/photos406/2/0/85/59/68/23/2368598500233_0_ALB.jpg[/img] This is from Edwards and Perman, Ware's Past in Pictures, p.38. It is captioned, "The White House, formerly the Cat and Monkey pub, between Ware and Hertford, where punts could be hired and a ferry operated in the early 1900s". It is on the River Lea. The building is still there and still inhabited; it can be viewed from the opposite bank. You might be interested in [url="http://images.kodakgallery.eu.com/photos406/2/0/85/59/68/23/2368598500233_0_ALB.jpg[/img] postcard[/url] which is on ebay at the moment. However, I'm not totally sure that that is the Cat and Monkey visible in the background - where is the chimney stack? Perhaps someone else could check this out. Mark

Reply ID 48307

Many thanks, that is very interesting I had not come accross it before, seems the "story" was right, more investigations now under way!

Reply ID 89479

Looking at some old maps I found (and I could be wrong) but I saw that the 'White House' was situated pretty much where the A10 viaduct crosses the Lea on the north side? Looks like it might have been accessed by Ware Park Rd (from the Ware end)? If you look on http://www.old-maps.co.uk you'll see it disappears in the 50s or 60s I think.

Reply ID 90468

The pub was just before the A10 bridge on the Hertford side and I think it was demolised in the early 1970s. Shame!