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Lynn Road, WISBECH, PE13 3DQ

This pub closed in 2019 and is currently being converted into a domestic dwelling. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4939668 for a photo of the pub in 2016

This public house is on Lynn Road, Wisbech. According to AA Oldham's book it was called The Windmill until its name was changed in 1877. The photographer has drunk in this pub. It is known by some people as The Canner's Arms due to its proximity to a large fruit and vegetable canning factory once owned by Smedley's and now owned by Princes. The current sign can be seen in this photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4939687

This public house is on Lynn Road, Wisbech. According to AA Oldham's book it was called The Windmill until its name was changed in 1877. The photographer has drunk in this pub. It is known by some people as The Canner's Arms due to its proximity to a large fruit and vegetable canning factory once owned by Smedley's and now owned by Princes. The current pub can be seen in this photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4939668

The Horse and Gig Inn once stood on this site on Lynn Road between "Smedleys" canning factory and The Clarkson Arms This inn's location is shown on a map of Wisbech which was surveyed and drawn in 1853 as part of The Public Health Act of 1848, see https://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=2680

The 2 towers house equipment which "cooks" baked beans, soups and other canned food after it has been sealed in cans. The 2 sterilizers were originally part of the Campbell's Soup factory in King's Lynn, see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1545820, and were moved to Wisbech in 2007 and 2008 when the factory was owned by Premier Foods (The last project undertaken by the photographer before deciding to retire)

The Art Deco office block and the adjoining pair of town houses at 85 and 87 Lynn Road are all Grade II listed buildings. There is a 17 acre site with one of the largest canning factories in the UK behind this road frontage. The building had the words "THE NATIONAL CANNING COMPANY" set into the stonework of the fascia below the roof line which has subsequently been filled in but is still visible on close inspection. It was originally built by the Smedley family in 1923, who were canning pioneers in the UK, on a site acquired from Crosse & Blackwell. Over the years the site has belonged to a number of different companies as rationalization and consolidation progressed within the food industry. Names that have appeared on this office block are Smedleys Ltd Smedley HP Foods TKM Foods Hillsdown Ltd HL Foods Ltd Premier Foods Princes The current owners Princes are part of the Japanese company Mitsubishi The following link is to a talk given by Michael Smedley in Evesham, where one of 10 canneries once owned by Smedley's operated before they were purchased by Imperial Tobacco http://www.valeofeveshamhistory.org/talks/talks-2013-2014/smedleys-canning/