DOLPHIN, BELGRAVE GATE

Mentioned in a lease for a year of the Dolphin, Belgrave Gate, 30 August 1675. (42D31/199).

CRANE, BELGRAVE GATE

Mentioned 1580 (Bateson’s Records of Borough of Leicester).

Billson writes in his ‘Medieval Leicester’ notes, that a Talbot Inn in Belgrave Gate paid 2/- (10p) rental to the … More

Photo above: circa 1950.(Everards) Opened 27 August 1939, licence transferred from Old Mitre, Lower Redcross St. Originally to be called … More

One entry in the 1880 directory, and in 1883 Frank Mapperson was running the Bakers. This was presumably named after … More

An off-licence for many years up to its closure and demolition, in the deeds of the property it refers to … More

Photo above: Original Durham Ox, circa 1920. On the corner of Birstall St. and Brunswick St, the Durham Ox’s early … More

Photo above: Circa1946 (John Zienteck), shows the beer house as LBM owned. Leicester Brewing and Malting bought the Birstall Arms … More

There were at least seven other beer retailers in Biddulph St. but the Lonsdale Arms is seemingly the only full … More

Photo above: c1920 with the car and bike outside the Rutland Arms. Sign of pub can be seen next to … More