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

Photo above: Militia parade, in front of area of market place where the Victorian fish market was eventually to go. … More

As early as 1533 there stood some kind of municipal building, often used by the Corporation Merchants. Billson’s Medieval Leicester … More

LRO has ‘Leicester notes and queries’ written in 1889, where it mentions: “White Swan in the Market Place, a very … More

This was used for civil and other functions, not until the early 1970’s was the building used as a drinking … More

It is known that Cornelius McNeil Stone lived in Marble Street, between Pocklingtons Walks Chancery Street off Newark Street. running … More

There is one record of the auction of the Dun Cow in Mansfield Street, together with the nearly new brewing … More

Only reference thus known is of George or Joseph Frith who kept the beerhouse, circa 1830s – 40s. In 1839, … More

Also known as the Mansfield Arms – sometime listed as 2 Sandacre Street and established circa 1820s. Looking down Mansfield … More