From Phipps pub list.
It stood on the corner of Belgrave Gate and Birstall St. This was a beer house that was only granted a wine licence in 1877, but still refused a spirit licence.
The Pridmore family owned and ran the Telegraph for most of its Victorian existence through to the 1920s. Circa 1864 William Pridmore, who was licensee for over twenty years, followed by his wife, Mary Pridmore, then son, Joseph Pridmore, who died during the war in 1916.
Joseph Cave took over for a short period in 1916, before Laura Kate Pridmore, Joseph’s wife assumed control in 1917. Laura married or remarried in 1923 to Walter Evans, so she became Laura Evans on the licence. Sidney Pridmore followed Laura as landlord.
On the rebuilding, c1930, a full licence was granted due to the surrender of the Black Horse’s licence on its closure a few years earlier.
One of only a handful of Phipps houses in Leicester. The Telegraph was compulsory purchased in 1968, for the new road scheme.
