The Horse & Groom in Huberstone Gate is recorded from 1790s but there is some suggestion that the original Horse & Groom stood next to the Bell Hotel, when it changed its name circa 1840s. This pub assumed the name.
This property may date from the Georgian period.
1816 ad for coach transport.
1843 Wm Johnson landlord was approached by a PC after 11-30pm as 20 people were still in his beerhouse with Johnson still pulling ale, he was fined £1
By the 1960s, it change its name to the Hare & Pheasant (sometime known as the ‘Round Bar’).
1968 photo of the Hare & Pheasant showing the proximity to Charles Street. This name would last until circa 1974, when another change was made, now to the Pack Horse.
A brief incarnation as Dusty’s, circa 1988, before changing again, to Cask & Bottle.
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