1862 advert: ‘To Let. A Capital Beerhouse in Wheat Street. The New Jolly Angler.’
Thomas Blastock applied for and was granted the licensee in that year. Thomas was there until 1870, when the license passed to Richard Wyatt. In 1873, the New Jolly Angler was auctioned together with brewhouse. Richard Neale would take it on, but within a year it was up for sale again. Mr Gurdin would buy it for £600 and in 1874, James Carr became the new licensee. William Charstone held it for a short time, passing on to James Hill, 1880. Shirley Kilby, 1883. Thomas Miles, 1884. It was then acquired by Thomas Nuthalls, North Leicestershire Brewery.
1885, Enoch Savage. 1887, William Robins. 1892, Francis Watts. 1900, James Twigger. The writing was on the wall for the New Jolly Angler in 1901, when Mr Marriot applied to de-licence the pub, together with four others: East End Tavern, St Ledger Tavern, White Horse, Belgrave Gate and Turks Head, in Chester Street, in exchange for a new build on Bolton Road. This was refused at the Brewster Sessions, and eventually the licence was given up in exchange for an off licence in Devana Road, Samuel Ellicock being the last licensee circa 1905.
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