Refreshment rooms on the Great Central Station, gained a full licence in 1899. Oliver Starbrook Holt the first licensee.
Photos from Born & Raised in Leicester.
1919 James Edward Knowlton – licensee.
Its official title on the application was London and North Great Northern Railway Co., King’s Cross London.
The bar failed to renew its licence on 14 January1924, after the government’s grouping of the ‘big four’ companies when the Great Central became part of LNER. Although James McLaren was listed as licensee 1927
The refreshment rooms continued until the railway’s closure under the Beeching Act of the 1960s.
