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PALOMINO

Location:- Valley Way

Brewery or Owner:-Tolly Cobbold then Pubmaster and finally Punch Taverns

When the Victory and Wheatsheaf were demolished to make way for the Icewell Hill development the licences surrendered were compensated by the granting of a licence for a new pub on the Houldsworth Valley estate, on Valley Way, The Palomino. The pub first opened on 22nd November 1963 (the day of the assassination of President J F Kennedy) by Mr R M Kydd, president of the British Palomino Horse Society. Landlords were Mr and Mrs Peter Cheeseman and the sign was painted by London artist Mrs E M Stanford.

It was the first new pub in Newmarket after the war and the only "Palomino" in UK.
Very few changes were made, the pub passing from Tolly Cobbold to Punch Taverns in ? and then closing at the end of 2018 almost exactly 35 year since opening. It was then sold and was demolished for re-development as residential in March 2020.

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1963	Peter Cheeseman	Tolly Cobbold	licensing records
1970 Jul 2	Michael Joseph Wallace	" "	" "
1979 Oct 18	Michael David Mears	" "	" "
1982 Feb 11	John Henry Allan Hitch	" "	" "
1985	Mark Berry	" "	" "
?	Roger Senior	" "	" "
1988 Mar	Barry McNally	" "	" "
2005	James McNally	Punch Taverns	licensing records
2011 Feb 1	Sheila McNally (widow of Barry)	" "	" "
2018 Nov 29	Sheila McNally	surrender of licence	" "

Mr. Kydd pulling 1st pint

1960's

2018 - for sale

2019

March 2020..another one bites the dust (Photo Mike Mingay)

Pity really, as this was a classic example of a post war housing estate pub, now rapidly disappearing

Another bland housing in-fill

and the loss of a prime example of a post war estate pub.

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