The Horse Shoe Inn Hunmanby is situated on Stonegate (Lower) to the east end of the village and is one of five traditional pubs in Hunmanby. In the late 1800s the premises we now know as the Horse Shoe Inn were actually a blacksmiths shop and yard, with a number of cottages at the rear, and were owned by a Mr Myers, himself a blacksmith. It was around 1890(c) when the building(s) were converted into the pub we know today. During the 1920s it was owed by a Mr Stanniforth who probably oversaw the conversion of the stables into a shop and garage which remain to this day, though not still in use as such. It also, at one time contained the largest pane of glass in the village, and at that time was leased by a Mr Pearlman who travelled from Hull every day via the train to sell fancy goods from the shop. Also, above the shop were for a while the headquarters of the Royal Ancient Order of the Buffalos (Hunmanby Branch), this particular location was favoured by the Buffs as their meetings would more often than not involve the consumption of alcohol (beer) and as such licensed premises were often sought (The Horse Shoe held the license) to satisfy the requirements of the law. This room was also known for being one of the largest meeting room's of its type in the village and surrounding area. The garage was for a while the home for a bus belonging to a Mr Crosby who ran a small bus service, serving the village and surrounding area's. The shop was also for a number of years during the 1970/80s used as a vet's surgery by the local vet Mr T Boothroyd. His practice headquarters were in Station Avenue Filey but his practice area took in many small villages in the surrounding area of which Hunmanby was one. Mr Stanniforth remained as the owner until he sold the Horse Shoe to a Mrs Bacon sometime during the thirties. Upon the death of Mrs Bacon (around 1949) the pub was then sold to W. M. Youngers whose headquarters were at the Leeds Yorkshire Hussar a popular hotel/inn situated in Leeds. From then on it was run by a succession of landlords. Mr Jim Rodgers who took over in 1956, been one of the best known. Much of Jims trade came from the staff employed by the nearby Butlins holiday camp just down the road.Indeed Jim remembers to this day when Sir Billy Butlin himself came into the Horse Shoe for a drink and had to stand in the kitchen as the pub was so full, mostly of his own employee's. Jim's rent when he took over the Shoe was the princely sum of £52 per annum, alas when he left some 26 years later it had risen to £3000 per year. A shot of gin, as Jim referred to it as, would cost you 1s-6p (18p) with a pint of bitter costing 1s-1p (11p). Jim was very fond of the board game Backgammon and could often be found playing with some of his locals over the bar. Jim retired around 1982 and Mr Mick Emmerson and his wife Janet took over. Mick and Janet who came from the Cayton area moved on after a short spell and Eric Chapman a local man took over. However Eric also moved on to pastures new after a short while, taking over the reigns of the Bull Inn at Gristhorpe a small village just of the main road to Scarborough.Mr Martin Fussey and his wife Pam who moved to the village from Beverly then took on the Horse Shoe tenancy. Martin retired from the pub trade in the November of 1999 to be replaced by Mr Neil Damford who with his wife Pat who left the Shoe in the week before Christmas 2001, the current Landlord/Landlady are the very amiable Tom and Anne who returned to Yorkshire after living for 20 years in South Africa. The pub itself under went many alterations since the forties and has been extensively changed from its original design. The bar area was once the actual blacksmiths shop (referred to earlier), and some of the outbuildings were converted to house pigs and poultry. It once prided itself as having no juke box which most other pubs succumbed to all to easily. Some well known locals (with whom the writer was familiar) who drank there over the years (1970/2001) were Frank Nesfield, (of whom it was said regarding his ability to play darts "e cud chuck a six inch nail and beaat most fowak" pictured above), Neville Wardell, George Watson, John Norris his younger brother Harold, John Skilbeck plus many others to numerous to mention. The Horse Shoe has a large car park to the rear (the old blacksmiths yard) and sells traditional beers and lagers and serves a fine selection of food all cooked on the premises.