Upper Kent St, with Anchor of Hope on the corner of Waring Street. A particularly long street of terraced houses, with few beer houses.
It seems Henry Jinks first applied for a beer licence in 1865. In September 1867, Jinks applied for a wine and spirit licence but was refused. In October of that year an inquest was held on Mr W. Messenger, (49), the local Sherriff’s officer and collector of taxes, who had committed suicide by hanging himself from a rafter in his closet. The inquest heard he was found by his thirteen year old son, who said he had been recently depressed. His wife corroborated, saying he was finding the collection of property and income tax difficult. Only the previous week he had gone to the Anchor of Hope in Kent St in an execution for taxes, where he was very much abused. The lady of the house threatened to ‘run a knife through him’ which played on his mind very much. A verdict of ‘suicide through temporally insanity’.
1868 The Sibson family would run the Anchor of Hope, first William Sibson, followed by Archibald Sibson a decade later and then Arthur Sibson until Wm Putterall came in 1900. Charles Harrison 1917, Thomas Denham ? 1920. –1950 Walter Hutt.
An empty and bleak site, not long left, a whole community gone in the 1960s development of inner Leicester.
