Known as the Humberstone Tavern in 1866 when William Hollin was convicted of having his beer house open after 11pm.
During the 1870s the rent was £45 per annum.
The Humberstone Tavern was put up for auction and bought by Thomas Hardy of Kimberly Brewery for £1,210 in 1877.
This was Hardy’s only Leicester outlet before merging with Hansons to become Hardy Hansons Brewery.
By circa 1880, Hardy’s Kimberly Brewery had changed the pubs name to North Western Vaults, near the nearby railway line.
By the turn of the century, no. 42 Humberstone Road became no. 64, and later the pub became known as the London & North Western Vaults. It closed in June 1957.
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