In 1815 there is a record of a Golden Fleece in the area but it isn’t certain if it is the same as this one.
Court records show it was the Prince of Prussia in 1860-61 kept by James Sutton and by 1867 called Gladstone Arms, sometimes known as the Gladstone. 1880 kept by Francis Kettle
Harry or Henry Gilbert almost lost his licence after allowing drunkenness on his premises in November 1895. His licence was objected to at the next Brewster Sessions, but he survived and was still here early 1900s.
The distressing case of Nicholas Higgott, aged fifteen, a cigar bundler who died in the Gladstone Arms. The neglect shown by his parents is only too evident in this Leicester Mercury report of 1877.
