Photo above: Outside the Sir Charles Napier, possibly during the Sawbridge tenure, with the obligatory terrier getting in the picture. Notice the fine etched windows by Holes’ brewery.
Stood on the corner of Causeway Lane and White Street, also known as the Napier Inn, a beer house from circa 1864, changed its name after the admiral, Charles Napier, was knighted. It closed on the 31st of December 1936, when its licence was transferred by Holes brewery to a new pub on Glenfield Road, to be known under the same name.
Its licensees were as follows: 1864, George Pewsey. 1878, George Simmons. 1872, Arthur Watts. 1878, Thomas Hall. 1879, William Norman. 1888, Thomas Norman. 1892, Ralf Preston. 1897, James Gilbert. 1913, Thomas Bruce. 1913, Charles Sawbridge. 1917, Annie Sawbridge. 1919, Charles Sawbridge. 1922 John (?). 1930, Edwin Bruce.
For further info on licensee James Gilbert see www.craxford-family.co.uk
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