The Story of The Three Horseshoes

IN THE BEGINNING

THE THREE HORSESHOES, RURAL LIFE

Life as it was

Pub's have a fascinating history unique to the British Isles, fulfilling the purpose of a publicly open house serving hospitality to communities and travellers around the country.  Life as we know it wasn't around, life as it was, was very different.

1936

The Three Horseshoes pub here in Goulceby is relatively new, starting life as a pub in 1936.  Previous to this, the village's pub was The Plough, only a stones throw away, and this place was the blacksmiths.  The blacksmith, so the story goes, sold a bit of shady booze on the side, which completely destroyed the trade of the former pub, which led to the creation of the aptly named Three Horseshoes.

A rural Lincolnshire community

Lincolnshire is very rural.  Back in time, it would have been an almost untravelled place.  A long trek to town.  Before mechanisation, farms employed hundreds of local men, labouring the land.  The village population would have been farmworkers and their families served with a church, one or other pub and as time developed, a school and shops all looking after the local community.

Lots of thirsty farm workers and no Netflix led to a busy pub.