Photo above: One of three beerhouses more or less next to each other, here pictured on the corner of Chester Street and Melville Street.
Records easily confuse this with the Leicester Inn or Tavern in Brunswick Street.
Standing opposite St. Mathews Church, in the1860s to 1875, it was known as the New Leicester Tavern before being renamed the Turks Head.
In May 1866, an auction announced ‘All that well accustomed beerhouse called the New Leicester Inn with brewhouse, stables, skittle Alley situate at corner of Chester St and Melville Street in the occupation of George Ainge.’
Williamm White followed circa 1869 and John Towell January1870. Later that year transferred to Ed Towell. An LBM House ran by a Mr. Woodcock in 1885 and Mary Ann Foster in 1890.
The licence was surrendered and closed on the 5th of April 1905, the licence removed to a new beer off in Wilberforce Road. This after Orson Wright, the owner, had tried to surrender the licence in 1899 so as to build another on Uppingham Road.