Hogans Bar – one of four or five Hogans to open in Leicester around the late 1990s. This was on Queens Road which opened in December 1998.
There was a bar here prior to this upstairs – can’t for the life of me think of what it was called, but I used to go on Sunday nights as live bands were on. We called it Queens Bar (for obvious reasons). It may though only have had a members only licence until the arrival of Hogans.
Barry Lount
Please see helpful comment below from Jon Dean which would indicate as it was only a restaurant licence they possibly bent the rules a little as I do not recall having any food, they did have real ale on tap which constituted my nutrition, together with live bands on a Sunday eve so made for a good night.
Hogans changed to Olives by 2004.
It closed sometime in 2016 and became Halcyon restaurant in 2017.
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In the 1970s this site was occupied by a branch of the local Home Bakery company – upstairs they had a restaurant which had a restaurant licence. Apart from the Clarendon and the Cradock Arms there were very few licenced premises in the district. This is believed to have arisen from a covenant on the original development of the land comprising Clarendon Park down to Knighton, either by the original owners, the Cradock family, or the developers, many of whom were staunch nonConformists.
Great info Jon, thanks