Photo above: circa 1960s.
Originally fronting Dorset Street, the Horse & Jockey circa 1879-1968, closed and was then re-built fronting Catherine Street.
Above Demo getting closer, below the new Horse & Jockey.
An application was made on the 27th of September 1879, for a licence submitted to the Brewster sessions on a pub yet to be built. This boxing ad shows the enterprise of one of the Horse & Jockey’s early licensees (see above photo).
Billy Sharp was the last of the original Horse & Jockey’s landlords. He was 70 years old when he retired in September 1968, after being a publican for 57 years in seven Leicester pubs.
This 1953 ad from Shipstones Brewery extolling the virtues of Shippo’s ale as supplied to Leicester’s pubs including the Horse & Jockey.
Sadly, this pub is now closed.