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White Horse, Cobridge
to.. scrap metal yard

A scrap metal yard and skip hire business maintains a corner frontage in Elder Road. At the gateway a curious empty building stands at odds with its surroundings. A sign above the door carries the name White Horse.

“The land came into our family a hundred years ago,” explains the owner 57 year old Tony Carter. “It was owned by my great-grandmother Fanny Wilshaw. The building you mention was a pub called the White Horse. I don’t remember it being a pub; it was always used as a house and office. My great-grandmother was a scrap metal dealer. She’d sit in the yard with a bag of coins weighing and buying metal. Then my grandmother took over. Her name was Frances but everybody knew her as Girlie. She married into the Carter family and my dad George ran the business until he retired. Now I run it with my son Simon.”

Around the corner Blackwell’s Row once neighboured with Churchill Pottery. And that’s gone as well.

“It’s all change around here these days,” says Tony. “Come back in five years and it might be different again. Who knows?”

 

T C SKIP HIRE
T C SKIP HIRE

name details in 2009


F. Wilshaw, Iron Steel and Metal Merchants
F. Wilshaw, Iron Steel and Metal Merchants

name details in 2001

 


White Horse, Elder Road, Cobridge
White Horse, Elder Road, Cobridge
in 2009



 

 

 



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