This stood approximately opposite the Nottingham Castle.
Listed licensees from directories: 1866 Elisabeth Toon. Elisabeth took Mary Bishop to court for breaking a pub window, also damaging some jugs and cheese. Bishop claimed she had gone to the Grapes to look for her husband who was always in there. On not finding him she lost her temper, causing the damage. She was ordered to pay 30/- damages, 10/- fine or one months’ hard labour.
Circa 1867, Thomas Trotter and William Hollin. September 1869, from Hollin to Harriet Foulstone. 1869, Elizabeth Simpson (some reports give the name Eleanor Sibson), she passed licence on in 1871 to John Hunt Burton. In April 1872, Eliza Edwards, who was lodging at the Grapes, received thee months hard labour for stealing a shawl from there. The Grapes license was not renewed at the 1875 Brewster sessions, John Hunt Burton still the licensee.
By early 1880 the old beer house was occupied by Lane & Challis, selling wines, spirits, ales & stouts.
