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	Picture source: Michael Croxford
The White Horse was situated on Northgate Street. This Lacon's Brewery pub closed in 2004 and has now been converted to housing.
Source: Terry Smith
The pub dates from the mid to late 18thy century. It was on what was from 1300's to 1950's the main route into commercial Yarmouth leading to Hall Quay and the fish market. with easy access to the market place as well. Clearly a coaching inn and a place to be picked up and dropped off. An important inn in Yarmouth just inside the North Gate with a weigh bridge originally dating from 1820. The one there at the moment is likely to be much later. There are signs that the weighbridge plate has been made shorter which is unusual. (See your existing photo) I suspect that the original plate was short (cart size) but then extended for some reason and then shortened again. You can see the shortening under the front wheels of the white car. The current plate is clearly from a time when most of it's use was from horse drawn traffic judging by the large knobbles on it to assist horse drawn vehicles. Probably about the turn of the century (1900-10). The small narrow window just to the right of the black central downpipe was the weighbridge operator's window so that they could look out to make sure the cart or whatever being weighed was totally on the plate. The steelyard (pronounced still-yudd) for the 'bridge would have been immediately behind the window. When I went there the pub in the 70s-90's it was elegant but quiet and the steelyard had gone
Patrick Smith (January 2025)
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