NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HOUSE – NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE – LOUGHBOROUGH HOUSE – PEGGOTTY’S ROSIE O’ BRIENS – ROSIES – SUN VERTIGO, 29 CHURCH GATE

c1960.

Directories show list of licensees from the 1820s when Issac Gray was there until c1829:  a Mr Bainsell then listed, 1831 Wm Chapman sent to prison for behaving in a riotess manor as he couldn’t pay the £1 fine. That year Thomas Pressor was indicted for allowing dancing in his house,fined 50/- for suffering disorderly conduct.

John Cooper, 1830-1840s. Northamptonshire House. Put up for to be let 1830, In 1846, John Henshaw is listed but the directory lists the pub as Northumberland House (which could be an error) 1848 Thomas Wainright, transferred to Thomas Wilford, now listed as Loughborough House c1860 Henry Thornton, 1862 Henry Thornton was fined 10/- for supplying ale 5 minutes before opening time on a Sunday, Thorton would be treasurer to Sir Thomas White Court Foresters and King of the Forest Lodge they were held here on regular occasions, also the Liberal Burgesses, Henry Thornton ( who was found dead in nearby River Soar later in 1881, suicide was suspected but the coroner recorded death by drowning he was aged 65 ) Thornton had transferred his licence to Thomas Sibson Jnr. in 1873, Thomas Sibson applied for and was granted a licence to open Sunday night and Monday morning for the convenience of persons attending the Cheese Fair in the market. below c1900 picture of Cheese fair,

Thomas Sibson was not at the pub for long the following year he transferred his licence to John Yearley.

Purchased by Langmore & Bankhart later to become All Saints Brewery.

1874 John Yearley licensee, Yearly was charged with allowing gambling, he promised to do away with the skittle alley if the charge was dropped, the bench agreed. Yearley was also prosecuted for selling adulterated gin in 1877, 1882 John H Burrows, to in 1884 Frederick Charles Taylor, his baby daughter Eve Elizabeth died whilst sleeping between her parents

1890 Fred Wood, 1898 John James Clarke, 1904 James Clarke (deceased aged 42) his widow Elizabeth Clarke took over 1907, 1924 Harry Geary, 1938 Thomas Wortley, Thomas’s son in law Henry Bale took over he was there for nearly 20 years before he died in 1959.

Barry Lount recalls: 

I frequented this pub regularly in the early 1960s:  a small front roomed bar with a stove in the middle.  There were regulars such as ‘Nogger’, ‘Tes the paint’ and ‘London Johnny’ – who liked to pin his summonses on the wall, so proud he was of them. It was extended mid-1960s.  Now married, I took Liz on a memory lane trip. The pub was now trendy, it had lost its earthiness, but ‘Nogger’ was still there.

Below Ad and description from c1974

Mr Garbutt and his barman Andy Deeth were attacked by two youths when they tried to evict the two after refusing to serve them, the youths who were both fined £300, Andy Deeth was so badly injured that he needed hospital treatment. He was off work for at least a week, He died the following month.

John Chapman seemed to follow Mr Garbutt in 1978, he was also attacked and glassed, the offender received 20 months in prison.

As in most cities, the flirting with ‘Irish’ names and themes was wearing thin.   Every town or city in England had its share of mock Irish bars, which in reality bore little resemblance to the real thing.

By 2005, the name had been shortened to Rosies.

In 2006, came another change of name, now called the Sun. Church Gate had by then become a late night youngsters’ venue, as the main night clubs are situated at the bottom of the street.

Opened 2024 as an African Restaurant ARIRI.