A Blackamoors Head is recorded 1776 no address given.
See LEICESTER CASTLE, OLD CASTLE-Castle View
A conundrum, the above may be connected.
1825 a substantial house to let comprising of 8 rooms blue dye house, engine house, four horse steam engine, scouring house, drying house, two indigo mills 8 woad vats and other utensils of the trade. The above are contiguous to the River Soar with its continuous stream. Apply Mr T Appleton, at Castle Inn Castle Yard.
A Beehive is recorded in Castle Yard in an 1828 directory. John Hinks, victualler. A newspaper article of 1825 describes the Bee Hive (late Castle Inn Castle Yard) It was here that a private theatre in a room called the Turret at the Bee Hive Public House every Monday a dance or Masquerade was held which created a disturbance, often in the st from the parties going home.
Masquerade from 1820 print (London Museum)
Nov 1826 The BeeHive Castle Yard was up to let with a pleasures ground at the rear.
Below 1831 July L It describes the Mount at the rear ” a favorite place for recreation Daniel Christian begs to say that tea and other parties can be accommodated ,considerable improvements have been made to make most agreeable for parties in the summer months” A Similar ad is in 1840 with John Nokes at the Old Castle referring to the Mount so it looks as though they all refer to the same property.
1835 Daniel Christian held “The Auxillery Conservative Association here. 1837 Four men were charged at the Blackamoors Lady in Castle St with violently assaulting a constable and rescuing a prisoner from the policeman who was escorting him to jail. At Court all four received prison sentence with hard labour. In april that year landlord Christian was disturbed at 4 am by 3 prisoners who wanted brandy, they had escaped over a high wall, they were later caught and escorted back.
A Castle Bowling Green is recorded in an 1815 directory.
The only other record found is March 1872, when Elizabeth Stevenson, described as landlady of the Castle Bowling Green, was fined one guinea or 14 days for letting two men have a quart of ale to drink in her stable on a Sunday morning.
It is possible that the report or name was incorrect as Elizabeth Stevenson was landlady of the Old Castle at the time. There was a Bowling Green in St. Peters Lane as well as the more well known one in Oxford Street.