These are mainly Restaurants with bar facilities and are on different locations on the complex we list them on one … More
Month: May 2021
MELVILLE ARMS, MELVILLE STREET
Photo above: Circa 1930s. The flags are out, a royal celebration of some kind outside the Melville Arms Sometimes the … More
HERALD OF PEACE – OWL & PUSSYCAT, MELTON ROAD
Opened in June 1959, with a licence from the Joiners Arms, Highcross Street. It ran for many years by the … More
SPEEDWAY HOTEL – FOSSEWAY, 432 MELTON ROAD
Originally a private house that was turned in to a pub prior to World War II by Marstons. I don’t … More
MANOR HOTEL – FESTIVAL, 557 MELTON ROAD
1950s pub built on the outskirts of Leicester, at the top end of Melton Road towards Thurmaston. Changed its name … More
MELTON HOTEL, 197 MELTON ROAD
Charming 1906 photo of Melton Road with the Melton Hotel’s gable end prominent, a far cry from today’s ‘Golden Mile.’ … More
TIRANGA, 119 MELTON ROAD
Only a few doors from the Why Not Bar, photo above was taken in 2011. This cafe bar and restaurant, … More
WHY NOT BAR – MELTON ROAD
Photo above taken in 2012. In its short opening life it courted trouble. By September 2012, after only a couple … More
MARTEN INN – PADDY’S MARTEN INN, MARTIN STREET
The Marten Inn was built circa 1880. The earliest known record is from August 1882, when William Ward had been … More
FALLOW DEER, MARSTON STREET
See Upper Conduit Street.