Newmarket Palomino
last updated Jan 25th, 2024.
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Newmarket Palomino
North, 52.24532,0.39218
closed October 2018
last owner/operator: Punch Taverns
122 Valley Way, CB8 0QQ
grid reference TL 634 634
An estate pub which opened on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy's assassination. (And the day before the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast).
Its original license was transferred from the Victory, which closed about the same time. The Palomino was the first pub built in Newmarket after WW2.
This may have been the only pub with this name in the country.
Closed Oct 2018 - permission for conversion to residential accommodation (nine flats) approved Feb 2020.
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
no real aleCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
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Nearby Suffolk pubs
Yard 0.46 mile
Cherry Tree 0.47 mile
White Hart 0.52 mile
Bushel 0.56 mile
Bull 0.61 mileHistorical interest
In the June 1982 edition of Last Orders*** it was reported that this pub was then owned by Tolly Cobbold.
According to Alfred Hedges' 1976 book, "Inns and Inn Signs of Norfolk and Suffolk", the sign at the time
depicts on one side a palomino pony with an attractive young lady on its back, and on the other a horse in the circus ring.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA memers since 1978)
