Photo above: Peaceful street scene looking from Braunstone Gate up Foxon Street in the 1950s.
Address is given recently as 1 Foxon Street, although most directories gave Braunstone Gate as the Black Horse’s location.
List of licensees: circa 1850, George Kenny. 1864, John Gilbert. 1874, James Day – also the owner. 1877, John Hubbard. 1879, Elizabeth Hubbard. 1885, James Gilbert. 1901 Alice Gilbert. who took over on James death. 1921, Silas Abram. (Silas had married James Gilberts daughter Rose, Rose was to pass away in the pub 1923) (Gilbert family info by Alan Craxford for further info see www.craxford-family.co.uk)
Everards had purchased the Black Horse around the turn of the century.
The Black Horse was a beer house only. It did not gain its full license until 31st of March 1954.
May 1958 Police raided the Black Horse on suspicion of the pub being used for betting. Two who ran the book were caught and fined £20, other customers caught with betting slips were also fined. Licensee Terence Cox who had only been at the Black Horse for five weeks and possibly knew little of what was going on, unfortunately for him was found guilty of allowing his pub used for betting so was fined £15.
Window changes are apparent in these two photos taken about eighty years apart.
This panoramic view of the Black Horse in the new pedestrianised Braunstone Gate taken 2023 by Jeremy Corbett
Little has changed in the bar over the years, The Black Horse remains one of the few ‘classic’ locals in the city, again photo by Jeremy Corbett 2023
Again a fine perspective view from Jeremy Corbett of the Black Horse from Foxton St,
Silas Abram worked at the pub prior to 1921, although not as the landlord. He was known to their customers as “Jack”. His wife, Rose, gave birth to their son Joseph (my maternal grandfather) in 1915 in the living accommodation above the pub.