Photo above: Map of East Bond Street.
The Full Moon is difficult to date as there are references to a few Full Moons in Leicester. The address is first given in 1815. Brewed its own ale, prior to Sharpes Brewery, later became a Strettons house.
The Full Moon had a provisional licence given in 1892 in a temporary building whilst the new Full Moon was being rebuilt.
Bond St. The Porters Lodge
can be seen in the foreground.
The Full Moon was rebuilt 1893.
Auctioned 1899, described ‘with a handsome front brick and stone two gabled, tiled entrance passage, glazed brick dado. three stall stable, loft, coal place, manure pit with two WCs.
Closed on the 27th of August 1938 and the licence was removed to a new Full Moon on Coleman Road the same year.
List of licensees: 1815, James Wilson. Charlotte Wilson died aged eighty in 1845, ex-landlady of Full Moon. 1827, James Moulding. 1840, Sam Ball. 1846, John Crofts. 1855, Joseph Sturgess. 1870, William Kellam to 1872 John Knapp. 1878, Joseph Wilson. 1882, Thomas Kay or King. 1888, James Toon.
1889, James Bower. James was to sell off most of the brewing barrels in anticipation of having the Full Moon rebuilt, which he did in 1892-3. During the first year of the new Full Moon, two men – Ed Marshall, aged sixty four, and Thomas Goodman, aged twenty three, were caught playing the ‘three card trick’ or ‘find the lady’. The police caught them red handed with ‘bad money’ and £5 notes on them. The pair of card sharps were well known to the magistrates. The older Marshall was given three months with the younger Goodman one month’s hard labour. 1896 James Bower had his licence objected to as he had recently been fined £5 for driving furiously. It was pointed out that it wasn’t against the terms of his licence, so Bower had his licence renewed.
1904, Charles Tallis. 1906, Charles Leigh. 1910, Charles Tallis. 1914, William Wood. 1919, Henry Barrs. 1921, H Sharman. 1925, John Ironside. 1930, S Alexander. 1931, George Dexter. 1931, Frank Justin. 1936, Edwin Green. 1938, Arthur Farrar. (As in all directories and newspaper reports, especially earlier ones names are often misspelt).
The rebuilt Full Moon c 1893, closed but still standing c1974 (photo JR)
The 1901 census has my relative James Bower running the pub. With him is his son Tom, a mining engineer. The boarder was Arthur Harry Robb who was a champion professional cyclist.