CROWN AND COMPASS – ROSE OF ENGLAND, 15 DENMAN STREET

A beer house in a mid-Victorian area off Wharf Street. John Kennedy was landlord from 1852.  Joseph Brown was in-charge … More

MIDLAND HOTEL – MIDSHIPMAN, DE MONTFORT SQUARE/PRINCES ROAD

Popular hotel bar, known as the Midshipman during the 1970s. 

DANNETTS HALL – DANNETS HALL TAVERN, DANNET STREET

Photo above:  Looking down Noble Street 1973, (sometimes the address was given as 46 Noble Street).photo L R O Stood … More

JOINERS ARMS – RADFORD ARMS, CURZON STREET

View of part of Curzon St.  The shop on the corner is recorded as a beer retailer in 1883, so … More

CURZON ARMS, CURZON STREET/TAYLOR ST

Built circa 1860, by John Stevenson, local builder, complete with brewhouse (CP). It was in trouble straight away as William … More

ROSE & CROWN – DIXIE ARMS/OLD DIXIE, 2 CURZON STREET/HUMBERSTONE ROAD

Photo above: Humberstone Road and the now Old Dixie (there was another Dixie Arms in Leicester), in its hey day … More

HOLLY BUSH – DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, 39 CUMBERLAND STREET/1 NORTHGATE

Built circa 1815 and originally known as the Holly Bush.  By 1822, it was the Duke of Cumberland.  Later signs … More

SHAH OF PERSIA, 15 CUMBERLAND STREET

Photo above: Circa 1906.(Everards) On April 1875, Henry Dilks transferred the licence to Amos Peberdy and the following month the … More

BIRD IN HAND – OLD BIRD IN HAND, 33 CUMBERLAND STREET/ELBOW LANE

Stood on the corner of Cumberland Street and Elbow Lane. On 1853, Mr Bradley is listed as victualler, when an … More

QUEEN VICTORIA, 31 CROWN STREET

(photo John Zienteck) John Flewitt listed as a beerhouse keeper, Crown Street 1841.  Originally a beerhouse owned by Welch Bros … More