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White Hart Yard red plaque

Penrith, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

White Hart Yard Through this archway was the old White Hart Inn, recorded in 1720 and a noted coaching inn from the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1922 William Kerr, a well-known nurseryman, bought the property and gave the facade a complete face-lift. Here the Penrith Players, founded in 1

922 by Horace Page, the new Manager of Barclays Bank, staged their first production of a comedy 'Uncle Ned’. In 1935 they won the Northern Section of, the British Drama Week Festival. The Players move

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