The Liverpool Cup stood at no. 13 Liverpool Street, off Russell Square and Willowbridge Street. Marked ‘I’ on map above. James Norman was licensee in 1865.
Ann Brooks aged 53 (from Wing in Rutland) followed by 1866, also listed as the owner she kept the beerhouse until May 1883, when together with its outbuildings, pig sty and two stall stables she auctioned it off for £720. As can be seen on the map it took up considerable ground in Liverpool St, featuring a gateway entrance to the outbuildings. Ann died in December 1883.
John Davey kept his pigs at the rear in 1882, when swine fever hit Leicester. Two were destroyed, buried in disinfectant, and he received 30 /- compensation – half the value of the pigs.
John Lemon c1883 followed Ann Brooks, running a mail cart business in the out buildings. Lemon had a year previously ran a beerhouse, bakers and grocery shop Grosvenor St in the town.
Richard Lambert (from March in Cambridge) in 1889 and then Sam North 1893
George C. Taylor was licensee from circa 1894 he was declared bankrupt in 1900. Enterprisingly, Taylor continued to run the cart business and also a bakery at the rear of the beer house. By then Brunt & Bucknall are listed as Brewers and owners of the Liverpool Cup, Nathan White (1899) was licensee after Taylor, then Thomas Burdett 1901, and James Yates a year later followed as landlord, until 1910 when Joseph Freeman took the reigns as licensee in 1910, George Smith was landlord in 1911 (information on George by Samantha Copeland).
1912 Wm Walkman ? held the licence
In 1916 Edward Reynolds was listed as a beer retailer, which indicates by then it was an offie. Thomas Smith followed 1921
Little is known after that.
