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 1831:  That year Thomas Pressor was indicted for allowing dancing in his house,fined 50/- for suffering disorderly conduct.

John Cooper, 1846, John Henshaw and in the 1850s, John Moore.

Listed as Northamptonshire House 1830 and 1844.

Listed as Northumberland House in 1846.

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.

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.