The ‘Hole in the Wall’, as it was nearly always known, was tucked away in Harding Street, which ran from Craven Street, to almost Northgate Street. Leicester’s smallest pub since the 1870s, it was only one front room in a terraced house. Surrounded by courts that housed many of Leicester’s poor, the name the ‘Hole in the Wall’ apparently came from the fact that it had no rear entrance or exit: beer was served through a hole in the wall to the rear courts.
Owned by Nottingham Rock Ales, acquired by Tennant Brothers in 1952. That year the landlord was fined by the new brewery for selling beer without a licence.
The pub closed on the 31st of January 1956, the licence transferred to the newly built Herald of Peace Melton Road.
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