Photo above: The Royal Oak, looking down Bridge Street. The Mitre & Keys at the bottom in Applegate Street.
1726 Recognizance orders records the Royal Oak West Bridge.
In the early 1800s many auctions and inquests were held here.
Mr Mudford was victualler during the 1820s-1830s. In 1831 he offered five guineas reward as: ‘ Some evil minded persons had torn and stolen the wool from the back of three lamb hogs belonging to him. The hogs were very much lacerated.’
The Royal Oak, bottom right junction of West Bridge and Bridge Street.
Leicester Journal inquest report 1827, drowning outside Royal Oak.
Edward Simpson kept the Royal Oak during the 1890s when this picture was taken. Further dating is of John Thompson & Sons Brewery of Burton, which merged with J. Marston in 1898, eventually becoming Marston, Thompson & Evershed.
The Thompson family would run the Royal Oak from 1853 until circa 1890, when Edward Simpson held the licence. Emma Partridge was the possibly the last victualler when it closed in 1897. The licence was transferred to the newly built Balmoral on Belgrave Road.
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