Cantineer Circa 1865. Built on part of the old Wharf St Cricket Ground which opened c1825, sold 1860 and built…
GLADSTONE HOTEL & VAULTS, GAIETY PALACE of VARIETIES. NEW EMPIRE. ROYAL EMPIRE. 27 WHARF STREET
Built circa 1862 as the Gladstone Hotel & Vaults, it had a six day liquor license. An advert (see below)…
TOM THUMB – GENERAL TOM THUMB, 21 WHARF STREET
Named after a mythical figure in English folk law, although Circus entertainer P. T. Barnham engaged a dwarf, Charles Stratton,…
STAR & GARTER, 7 WHARF STREET
Star & Garter, built in the mid -1860s, stood on the corner of Erskine Street – so it looks like…
CRICKETERS ARMS – CRICKETERS HOTEL, WHARF STREET
At the top of Wharf Street, opposite the Three Cranes and stretching along Humberstone Road to behind Spa Place and…
THE WESTERN, WESTERN ROAD
On 22 August 1895, Thomas Smith gained a provisional licence that was transferred from the Friars Causeway on the yet…
WHITE LION – MITRE & KEYS – PARROT – RAM – CROWN, WEST BRIDGE STREET
WEST BRIDGE As the West Bridge is part of ‘old Leicester’ there have been many inns and beerhouses over the…
NAGS HEAD, WEST BRIDGE STREET
A Nags Head was pulled down on West Bridge, King Richards Road on the 24th of January 1880, to make…
SAILORS RETURN, WEST BRIDGE STREET
Post 1815 is the first recording of a Sailors Return. Was this the culmination of thousands of soldiers and sailors…
WEST BRIDGE TAVERN, 27 WEST BRIDGE
Photo above: circa 1900. The first known record is of Edward Simpson, circa 1845, running the West Bridge Tavern. Edward…