Photo above: Mrs. Jubba outside the Dun Cow.
Stood on the South West corner of Grange Lane and North West Deacon Street, with Dun Cow Yard running off Deacon Street.
1833 Robert Hargrave of the Dun Cow Green Lane (Old name for Grange Lane) fined 40/- plus costs as deposed by Moses Pegg for open illegal hours. The Dun Cow was again recorded in a court case of 1833, when Thomas Hargrave was charged with keeping his house open unlawful hours. Moses Pegg, informer, made the charge. Peggs’ accomplice deposed that he saw a woman return from the pub with a covered jug of ale after 10pm. Hargrave countered that as he also sold milk it was milk in the jug. Case dismissed.
In 1851, the beer house was put up for auction, with Joseph Hargrave the proprietor. (not sure yet what relation if any the Hargraves were, although Joseph was living here in 1841 census, maybe the media mixed up the christian names, not unusual for the time))
The Juba family kept the pub from the early 1860s, Henry Juba being victualler from 1875 to cica1910, John Juba until prior to World War 1.
In 1888, Henry Juba was charged with cruelty to a horse when he overloaded a waggonette the horse was drawing.
Just desserts were given in 1885, when Henry Juba was thrown from his horse and wagon when he collided with a bullock in Aylestone.
The Jubas were well known as publicans in the Leicester area, keeping many beer houses.
When Mrs. Juba applied for a licence she was asked by the magistrates ‘How is the Dun Cow?’ to which she replied to much laughter, ‘She Milks well your honours.’
May 1929 The Dun Cow was raided by the police when they suspected illegal bookmaking going on. Richard Heath a bookmaker was found collecting and taking bets whilst landlord George Arthur Juba was in the room, in court Heath was found guilty with a £25 fine and £4 costs, landlord George Juba was to declare ‘Ive never made a bet in my life’ further stating that the Juba family had kept the Dun Cow for 120 years, handing down from father to son, never the less he was also fined £10 and £4 guineas costs.
