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MERCHANT STORE – CHIC – MOONLIGHT BAR – SIRUS – GRAPEVINE, 33 BELVOIR STREET

Opened in December 1998, by Bank’s Brewery, designed to create a similar concept to one operated in Birmingham’s fashionable Broad…

Belvoir Street

YATES – WALKABOUT, 25 Belvoir Street

Photo above:  The façade and side of the building during alterations, showing the mixture of Georgian, Victorian and later additions.…

Belvoir Street, newspaper clipping

LAS IGUANAS, 15 Belvoir St

Las Iguanas a chain of restaurants dedicated to Latin American food and drink in 2006. It is still open for…

Belvoir Street

RAT & PARROT – GLASSHOUSE – CHILLI WHITES – CANDY STRIPE – THE LOCKER ROOM, 11 Belvoir Street

Opened September 1999, as the Rat & Parrott.  One of a group of themed pubs of the same name throughout…

Belvoir Street

CHERRY TREE, 43 EAST BOND STREET

Photo above: taken before the widening of Causeway Lane, resulting in the demolition of the next-door building, thereby isolating the…

East Bond Street

THREE NUNS, LORD JOHN RUSSELL, BLACKFRIARS STREET

In August 1856, Lord John Russell formally the Three Nuns applied for renewal of licence by Archibald Stevenson. Jan 1833…

Blackfriars St.

QUEEN, 13 BLACKFRIARS ST.

Photo above: Blackfriars St. map. Blackfriars Street was named after the area which was once home to a Dominican Friary,…

Blackfriars St., Leicester Chronicle

MUMBAI BLUES, 87 BELGRAVE ROAD

Photo above: Circa 1998 Opened in October 1998, in the mainly Asian part of the city, naturally serving Asian fare…

Belgrave Road

HIRINIS BAR & RESTAURANT – SPORTS CORNER, 32 BELGRAVE ROAD

Hirini, more of a restaurant than a bar. The Sports Corner followed circa November 2017. This didn’t last long before…

Belgrave Road

IRON FOUNDERS ARMS – MILTONS HEAD – SULTAN VAULTS – SULTAN OF EGYPT – SULTAN, 237 Belgrave Gate.

Stood on the corner of Belgrave Gate and Woodboy St, opposite Foundry Square. Listed as the Iron Founders Arms in…

Belgrave Gate, Harry Wilkinson, Tigers

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