Photo above: Circa 1906.
Sir Robert Peel, named after the founder of the Metropolitan Police force (the ‘Bobbys’) and future Prime Minister.
A pub since mid 1850s, amongst its landlords was one Arthur ‘Dick’ Pougher in the 1880s and 90’s.
Arguably one of the most famous of all Leicestershire cricketers, Pougher was the first Leicester player to score 1,000 runs in a season in first class cricket. He also took fourteen wickets whilst playing for England against Surrey in 1895. By then he had taken over at the Cattle Market Hotel in Aylestone Road.
‘Dick Pougher was thus to keep the Robert Peel in the early 1890s at the same time as Arnold Rylott kept the nearby beerhouse, the Earl of Leicester. Only a stone’s throw away from one another were two of the greatest cricketers to play for Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Everards records show they purchased the pub in 1901.
A major refurbishment happened in 2014, both internally and externally.
This photo by Eddy Hall shows a different livery.