Charles Agar comes across as quite a character: an entrepreneur in manufacturing who divided opinion. It is hard to get … More
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LEEDS TAVERN, 109 WILLOW STREET
Leeds Tavern once stood on the corner of Willow and Brierley Street. Benjamin Whitehead kept an unnamed beerhouse in 1863 … More
WILLOW TREE, 91 WILLOW STREET
Photo above: Circa 1912. Everards copyright. The Willow Tree once stood at the corner of Willow Street and Brunswick Street. … More
OLIVE BRANCH, 1 WILLOW STREET
Photo above: J Zienteck circa 1940s. James Bollard was granted a licence c1862 in this rapidly growing area of the … More
SLATERS ARMS, 36 WILLIAM STREET
Circa 1860, William Foster was landlord. He was a Slater who ran a grocer’s shop in Baker Street, moving to … More
SPA TAVERN, 2 WILLIAM STREET
Photo credit above: Nick Miller Collection Supposedly named after a nearby spring claimed to have medicinal properties. Circa 1850, Robert … More
HOPE, WIGSTON STREET
Wigston Street was laid out between Halford & Rutland Street. In January 1833, a case was bought up on information … More
HORSES & GROOM, WHEAT STREET
First mentioned in May 1838, when a bakehouse and dwelling was advertised to let ‘Situate in Benford Street with passage … More
NEW JOLLY ANGLER, 116 WHEAT STREET
1862 advert: ‘To Let. A Capital Beerhouse in Wheat Street. The New Jolly Angler.’ Thomas Blastock applied for and was … More
WHEATSHEAF, 76 WHEAT STREET
Photo above John Zienteck. Circa 1946. Corner Wheat and Lead Street. The Wheatsheaf looks to be a Georgian building, the … More