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2 Temperance Hotel	8 King's Head	14 Bull
3 Eagle	9 Wellington	15 Green Dragon
4 Three Tuns	10 Dolphin	16 Fountain
5 Bushel	11 Lamb	17 Orby House
6 Woolpack	12 Lacons Stores (Pelican)

The Orby House seems to have existed for a very short time in ealry 1900s. Two references place it next door to the Sir John Barleycorn, in Albion Street.

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1911	Francis Albert Pinn		1911 census

Credit here for David Rippington and http://www.newmarketshops.info/The_Rookery.html

Originally just a private house, by 1911 it had became another of the Rookery's public houses. Occupied by Francis Albert Pinn at that time, who lists himself as a 'Licensed Victualler' in a hotel. In 1901 census Francis and wife Emily were at "The Sun", Newmarket. His wife, Emily, had previously been the proprietor of the Three Tuns in the 1904 Kelly's Directory (see above).
Being right next door to the Sir John Barleycorn, Orby House didn't last long as an inn, it was sold as a private dwelling on 25th April 1914. and it does not show in the 1916 Kelly's Directory. It looks as if Francis Pinn took a gamble on a new venture at Orby House but failed to compete with his established neighbour at the Sir John Barleycorn.

According to an index (National Archives reference MT 9/1094) of Ruhleben Prison Camp near Berlin, Germany in 1916, a 33 y.o. Frank W. Bin gave his home address as Orby House, Newmarket. Frank gave his occupation as a Jockey. Francis' son was called Walter Francis Pinn, he was actually 36 in 1916, but he seems to have swapped his Christian names around and along with a misheard surname, Walter Francis Pinn became Frank W. Bin. Ruhleben was for civilians interned for the war.

Francis senior, being 68, not having an easy time, probably retired from being an inn-keeper. He died in 1920 and Emily re-married to Henry Terry Shoesmith Avis in 1923 and they're shown living in Orby House in the 1926 Newmarket Street Directory.

Between 1928 and 1930 Orby House became a cheap lodging house. Henry T.S. Avis died in Dec 1935, Emily was still living here in the 1936 Directory. By the 1940s it is thought that the house had been demolished and the plot was being used as a garage. Just before the Rookery was demolished there is just a lean-to shed at this location, as can be seen in the photo below. It seems more than likely that the origial building was where both the shed and twin arched building are in the photograph

[Note from David Rippington] - Orby House is shown on the 1901 map above as being where the 'shed' is in the photo below, but there may be a more likely location. On all the censuses and directories that the house is listed on, it's always shown as being immediately adjacent to the Sir John Barleycorn in Albion Street (i.e. where the 'shed' is). Looking at this picture though there may be a more likely interpretation for the location of Orby House - as being the slightly exotic building(s) on the left of the photo, to the left of the 'shed' - both the twin-arch-fronted lean-to and the white-washed main building. These do look like that they were more likely to have been part of a lodging house.

final days - 1969

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