Jonathan Hooton
A sign showing the former Black Horse pub on Wensum Street.
- Credit: Jonathan Hooton
He is known as the Norwich Pub Detective due to his fascination with all things to do with the city s famous pub legacy. And this week Jonathan Hooton explores how clues still present today shed light on two pubs pasts.
Pub signs can sometimes be recycled and therefore saved even though the pub itself has long since disappeared.
This has happened to the Black Horse in Wensum Street. The Black Horse pub closed in 1969, but the sign of the Black Horse was kept and used when the pub became the Black Horse Bookshop in 1972.
Jonathan Hooton
A sign showing the former Black Horse pub on Wensum Street.
- Credit: Jonathan Hooton
He is known as the Norwich Pub Detective due to his fascination with all things to do with the city s famous pub legacy. And this week Jonathan Hooton explores how clues still present today shed light on two pubs pasts.
Pub signs can sometimes be recycled and therefore saved even though the pub itself has long since disappeared.
This has happened to the Black Horse in Wensum Street. The Black Horse pub closed in 1969, but the sign of the Black Horse was kept and used when the pub became the Black Horse Bookshop in 1972.