Only a couple of references known for the Cigarmakers Arms. In July 1868 the Royal Agricultural Show came to Leicester Race Course. This was a major event and amongst the many hotels advertising accommodation:
COMFORTABLE ACCOMMODATION
For parties visiting the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Show, will be found at THE CIGARMAKERS ARMS. Loseby Lane, Mrs Toone proprietor.
A court case occurred in January 1869 when Bingham Newland claimed that goods and furniture had been moved from the Cigarmakers Arms by Eliza Toone. Eliza countered that the goods belonged to Timothy Bishop, a former lodger at the Cigarmakers, but whom she now lived with in Pasture Lane. The Judge found no case to answer and dismissed it.
Eliza lived in Loseby Lane with her children. She had split from her husband since 1859, and in 1861 applied for protection order of her property in her shop as she was running it herself and didn’t know her ex- husband’s whereabouts.