Named after the nearby barracks, in 1841 Royal Lancers was auctioned off with a rent of £26 per year. William Sands together with his wife ran the beer house during the 1840s and early 1850s. The pair was prosecuted for breaking various licensing laws more than once.
1841 Auction gives the address as Swans Lane (LC) Again the pub was up for auction a year later Jan 1842, in the occupation of George Orange. 1844 George Orange would auction his brewing vessels, 3 store pigs, household furniture, and other effects.
The same licensing misdemeanors as the Sands befell Joseph Linney during the following decade.
1872. A strange case of assault. Benjamin Hubbard’s wife accused him a giving her a beating, he counter claimed he was sitting in the Royal Lancers with their baby on his knee, when his wife stormed in and hit him with a bottle of beer, she then attacked a Militia man. She took a great deal of quietening before she was ejected, the court believed Benjamin, cautioned his wife, also granting him custody of the child.
A home brew pub, one of its last brewers was a Mrs King in 1892.(MB), by 1894 it seems to have become an Everards house.
William Withers 1894 Rose Withers 1900 Benjamin Hughes 1905 William Wardle 1907.
The licence was surrendered on 5 April 1912, for part licence on a beer house off in Paget Road.