Listed in a directory in 1849.
Harcourt Street, off Archdeacon Lane (Vaughn Way). The Pineapple PH stood on the corner.
In May 1851, two men were charged and fined for assaulting Sarah Larrad, landlady of the Bell beer house Harcourt Street, by knocking her down when refused drinks after time.
By 1856, known as Bulls Head, when Police entered after midnight to find eight men still drinking. John Yates, victualler, was fined 20/-.
In 1862, William Cornell, who also brewed here, was charged with a similar offence. A year later, in December 1863, Cornell was declared bankrupt.
Other landlords included William Jennings, 1859; John Greenwood, 1869; John Gist, 1869; Thomas Bachelor, 1870; Alf Brown, 1874; Thos Cooper, 1875; Charles Collings, 1881; George Gask, the same year; 1900 William Grainger.
January 1894, saw the death of Fred Spencer, 32, a Framework Knitter, after a supper of bread, cheese and ale he retired for the night. He was sleeping with another framework knitter, Joseph Hallam. Joseph recounted that as he was about to go to sleep he heard a gurgling sound come from Fred’s throat. Joe fetched the landlord and sent for the doctor, but by the time they had arrived Fred had died.
It seems the Bulls Head closed as a beer house circa 1905. William Grainger perhaps the last victualler recorded.