Photo above: Circa 1948. (credits: John Zienteck).
It was a beer house only, and didn’t gain a full licence until 1950.
Robert Flude applied for licence in September 1865, but was refused. It seems he was successful a year later as in 1867, he was listed as victular of the Dew Drop. Flude transferred his licence to Amos Freeman 1870, numerous licenses followed at least twenty in the following years.
Lists from Licence Record Register; 1879 Wilson Windram. 1886 Walter Crane. 1887 Arthur Johnson. 1890 John P Hayes. 1892 James Jones. 1894 Henry Moore. 1895 Joseph Muddimer. 1903 Henry Bee. 1908 Ernest Preston. 1910 Alfred Court (deceased) 1915 Charles Yates. 1919 Lizzie Yates. also 1919 Charles Sidney Yates. (the licence register ceases here) From Joseph Regans list the following names are given, c1940 Samuel Benford. c1947 Alan Broughton. 1950 Harry Masding. 1951 Kenneth Brooks. 1953 Sidney Stephenson. 1957 William Crane.
LBM bought the Dew Drop from Mann, Crossman & Paulin, in May 1894.
Seems unusual for a London Brewery to own a Leicester beer house, but Mann’s had previously expanded from their London base to the Albion Brewery at Burton.. Although the licensing register makes no reference to Mann Crossman & Paulin, instead it records the ownership as William Gunton? to Leicester Brewing & Malting c1897, perhaps beers were supplied for a time by M C & P
Ceased trading c1960, see Dave Sherwins comment below.
I lived in Gosling Street up until the mid 1960′”s the Dewdrop yard backed up to my back yard I’m pretty certain that the place was still trading up to 1965
Dave Sherwin
Thanks for that Dave, I will edit file pointing to your comment, thanks for your interest and feedback, just what we are looking for.