Alnwick (Clayport) - Pack Horse Public House

Name: The Pack Horse Public House

Address: Clayport, Alnwick

The Pack Horse Public House was only a short-lived mid-19th-century beerhouse, opened by a Scotsman called John Cockburn who was a labourer by trade.

He and his wife Dorothy lived there between the late 1840s and the mid-1860s. As the map below shows it was located opposite the Clayport Tower Inn and close to the junction of Clayport Street with Tower Lane.

1864 Town Plan
Clayport Tower Inn & Pack Horse PH

1851 Census John Cockburn Pack Horse Inn
'Railway Labourer and Publican'

1855 Whellan's Directory - John Cockburn

1861 Census John Cockburn - 'Innkeeper &  Grocer'

By the time of the 1871 census, John and his wife Margaret had moved and were running the Crown Inn on Market Street. After that time there is no further mention of the pub in local directories or census records, but unlike many of the other pubs on Clayport Street around that time, the building survives to this day.