PELICAN, 49 GALLOWTREE GATE

Earliest recording known as the Pelican is in a will in 1715.  

1747 Daniel Oldham listed as victular of the Pelican, 1772 Aug and Sept, James Oldham held auctions at the Pelican selling property, he also held insolvency charges against debtors at the Pelican, by 1778 a James Oldham was declared bankrupt whilst running the 3 Cranes, property and farm land of his was auctioned off.

1820s -c1846 Solomon Bray (died 1845) his wife Elizabeth Bray died 1837, 1832 Bray charged with assaulting a man named Jeffrey, 1834 Solomon Bray was fined 20/- for kicking Abraham Carnell in the ‘posterior’ over a row over a bottle of ‘pop’ 1840 Bray charged with assault on two drapers of Market Place, whose yard backed on to Brays over a right of way dispute, Solomans licence was transferred in 1845 to Elizabeth Bray his daughter on his death until 1850,

James Brown then became vict, he was charged with an assault on Rebecca Smith over 70 years of age who had come into the Pelican to fetch her husband out then reprimanded him by throwing a glass of gin over him, Landlord Brown then tried to evict the woman but both ended up on the floor in the passage, James Brown claimed in court the women was a blackguard and trouble maker, never the less he was find 20/- or 14 days.

In 1853, a lodger here killed himself by falling down the stairs drunk. 

1862 Henry Hughes was landlord until 1890, John Stanley Brown until c1893, James Boulger until 1900, and Minnie Boulger 1896, Everards Brewery now became the owners from Joseph Brown ( a name that often crops up as owner of Leicester pubs)

1898 William or Walter Spriggs, Henry Rogers 1907, 1918 Paul Allerton Turner, 1922 John Gillespie Grieson, 1928 Thomas Desmond, 1935 Wm Richards, 1953 Wm Fisher, 1957 John Vann.

Stood next to the Lion & Lamb as shown in this photo, pre-1890, (photo above) when plans for a new Pelican were drawn up (see below).         

The new Pelican existed from 1890 to 1968 when, on the 6th of September 1968, the last public house in Gallowtree Gate closed (there was once more than twenty), and was sold to the Prudential Assurance Co. for £121,500.