Photo c1946 John Zienteck
The 1842 directory listed the Neptune which consisted of three cottages, one of which was the Neptune.
1855, William Scott the licensee, was also listed as a painter.
The toilets were across the road in a French style pissouir with corrugated iron screen and the waste passing straight into the river.
Rebuilt as the West End Inn, purchased from Thomas Withers on the 22nd of April 1892 by LBM Brewery.
This is the type of Rat Pit that would ‘grace’ the West End Pub unlike the larger type from the Ship in Soar Lane used as a ‘sporting’ event reports of the West Ends suggests that it was a wooden affair similar to the above photo, sometimes I think the disposal of rats in Victorian times by Jack Russell terriers are better than poisoning.
Purchased by the Hussein Brothers in the late 1980s. They were to own and be at the forefront of the café bar revolution that followed, each one had its own individual style. The Pump and Tap remained much a ‘local’.
De Montfort University bought the Pump and Tap and the nearby Bowstring Bridge, after much objection, publicity and petitioning against. They proceeded to demolish both in December 2009.
