Photo above: circa 1957, the Dove at a late building stage.
Situated in Evington but brought (just) into the city boundary as the brook at the rear defines the new city boundary.
The Dove was built in 1958 with licenses transferred from the Bath Hotel and Sailors Return in Leicester. George Rudkin also followed on from the Bath Hotel to the Dove as licensee.
Everards the owners were intending to call the pub the Loggerheads after an old inn in the city, but locals got wind and objected to the aggressive nature of the name. As the neighbours perceived themselves to be a peaceful lot the pubs name became the Dove.
The Dove was to attract unwanted publicity in 1998 when a man was killed after an altercation in the pub moved outside. A thirty-one year old Kulwider Singh Soar who worked at the pub was found dying in the road.
The pub is still open for business, as of writing. 2000