Photo above: circa 1960s.
Originally fronting Dorset Street, the Horse & Jockey circa 1874-1968, closed and was then re-built fronting Catherine Street.
Above Demo getting closer, below the new Horse & Jockey.
When the Horse & Jockey in Humberstone Gate was to close c1874 for the new Wyggeston Hospital later Wyggeston Girls School, the trustees of the Hospital would apply for a licence on some land in Dorset/Catherine St with the intention of building a public house with the same name as previously in Humberstone Gate, the licensee was to be Charles Roper from the Humberstone Gate Horse and Jockey, It is not clear the actual date the pub opened but the Humberstone Gate pub was sold off in 1877.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. proving a date confusion. (the newspapers dont always get the facts right) Nov 1880 Charles Roper transferred his licence to Charles Coltman This boxing ad shows the enterprise Charles Coltman of the Horse & Jockey’s early licensees (see above photo).
By now the Beeston Brewery Co were supplying the Horse & Jockey.
Charles Coltman who came from the Peacock and moved to the White Lion after transferring his licence to Thomas Goddard 1882, Alfred Goddard 1901, William Bond 1903, Caroline Bond 1909, William Roper c1911, Herbert Coates 1918, Herbert was fined £1 for failing to display an opening sign relating to Sundays in 1920, Charles Henson 1921, Robert Chadwick 1822, Harry Chapman 1930, Arthur Neale c1934, Rex Holmes 1939, Harry Wilson 1951, James Miles 1954.
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.
It traded for a while c 2000 called the Jockey Wok, then Pepperzzz both Indian-Chinese, closed c2017
Sadly, this pub is now closed.
My grandad William Sharp was the last landlord on Dorset street horse and jockey
He was my Grandad also. My name is the same as his, and my fathers’ was too. I’m an Aussie, don’t remember him, unfortunately, also have uncles I don’t remember, Kieran and David, I believe. We are related. Cheers.
Like you I was named after my dad
My mother was rene
my grandad sounds like your great grandad. Your grandad was my mum’s brother, Kieran and David are still around, my email if it’s easier. jimayres65@outlook.com