JR has in his listings a Greyhound in the Market Place in 1650. There is no other conformation of this. … More
Category: Closed Pubs
KINGS HEAD, MARKET PLACE
A Kings Head was recorded in the 1745 recognizance orders as being in the Market Place.
ROUNDHEAD INN (TAVERN), MARKET PLACE
JR records a Roundhead in the Market Place, 1650. In the same year, ‘item paid at ye meeting of Mr … More
ORIENTAL CAFE, 18 MARKET PLACE
The original Winn’s Café, called the Oriental circa 1892. By 1920, the Oriental Café was occupying numbers 14, 16, 18 … More
LITTLE CROWN, MARKET PLACE
Photo above: Militia parade, in front of area of market place where the Victorian fish market was eventually to go. … More
GAINSBOROUGH, CORN EXCHANGE (MARKET PLACE)
As early as 1533 there stood some kind of municipal building, often used by the Corporation Merchants. Billson’s Medieval Leicester … More
WHITE SWAN, YE OLD WHITE SWAN – MARKET PLACE
LRO has ‘Leicester notes and queries’ written in 1889, where it mentions: “White Swan in the Market Place, a very … More
BIER KELLER – MARKET TAVERN – CHEF & BREWER – LLOYDS NO. 1 BAR, CORN EXCHANGE (MARKET PLACE)
This was used for civil and other functions, not until the early 1970’s was the building used as a drinking … More
THE STRUGGLER, MARBLE STREET
It is known that Cornelius McNeil Stone lived in Marble Street, between Pocklingtons Walks Chancery Street off Newark Street. running … More
DUN COW, MANSFIELD STREET
There is one record of the auction of the Dun Cow in Mansfield Street, together with the nearly new brewing … More