Photo above: Rifle Volunteer circa 1946. Credit: John Zienteck. Stood on the corner of Wharf Street and Wheat Street. The…
BUTCHERS ARMS, 45 WHARF STREET
The Butchers seemed to be a short lived beerhouse on the corner of Wharf Street and Wheat Street, north side. Although…
CANTINEER, 35 WHARF STREET
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…