Bow Street ran between Bedford and Wharf Street.
List of licensees includes, in the census of 1841: Charles Miles. Charles died at the Cottage in April 1868, aged about sixty six. John Miles followed, like Charles had been in 1843, John was fined one guinea or fourteen days in 1871 for permitting drunkenness on the premises.
John Miles continued the family connection for over fifty years up until 1891 when the Cottage House was sold at auction together with another tenement for £835.
JR lists: 1892, Richard Carter. 1895, James Kendrick. 1998, Charles Kelsey. Police records show the last three licensees as 1899, Harriet Kelsey. 1901, John Brown, and 1903, Reuben Orton.
Looking towards Wharf Street, local brewer Welsh Bros of St Martins Brewery Leicester the suppliers. Strangely, Welsh Brothers had another beer house called the Cottage in Luke Street, Leicester. This Cottage House in Bow Street however closed 23rd of December, 1905. Compensation of £438 paid to the brewer with £88 going to the landlord Reuben Orton, at the Sessions when asked how much money he made from the pub Reuben replied “£3 per week last year but very little this year, I sold my ale at 6d per quart but 5d per quart to an old lady” which caused laughter in the court room. After the closure of the Cottage Reuben Orton was to move around the corner to the Milk Maid in Bedford St.
John miles was my great great grandfather
Hi, was John Miles the son of Charles Miles? Just asking for family tree research!
Paul, does not look like it from my research as Johns father and mother were registered as Joseph and Ann