Feb 1813 a major sale of over 30 Stocking Frames was held at the Old Marquis of Granby which was in the occupation of Mr S How.
A month later in March 1813 advertised as late in the occupation of Mr How the pub was up for sale together with outbuildings, large garden. also in the occupation of Mr How baker a bakehouse with ovens and 6 tenements in the yard of Marquis of Granby.
May 1816 The bakehouse ‘in full business’ was up for sale by Mr Bullard baker together a dwelling house and four tenements at the sign of the Marquis of Granby Northgate.
This indicates that the pub stood on quite substantial grounds in Northgate, Chris Pyrah notes the pub is still recorded in 1822.
It is worth reporting the words of Tom Barclay b1852 in Leicester who wrote; ” I offer your readers a little sketch of that slice of Leicester called Northgate St, only 200 yds long. Go through any morning from 10 o’clock, at this time the street is alive with female forms, who fill the causeways , in caps, in hoods, with shawls over their heads, with toddling smudge faced bairns at their apron strings. they saunter in and out of shops, tidy, tattery, slattern, and scant of clothing. Shop fronts are dingy, grimy, blackened by friction, the cuts in the butchers are scraggy and bemauled. I counted 18 courts on one side 5 on the other, and 8 public houses. I beheld women pouring internal libations from small crystal chalices. a friend said they were only necking the ordinary morning two-penn’orth of rot-gut. I know only to full well, that if i lived up one of those courts, in a stuffy, smoky, two roomed little crib, i might be tempted, we can’t be too careful in ascertaining whether the desire to drink is the cause of the slum. or whether the slum is the cause of the desire to drink.