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…
ROYAL OAK, 7 WEST BRIDGE STREET
Photo above: The Royal Oak, looking down Bridge Street. The Mitre & Keys at the bottom in Applegate Street. 1726…
RAILWAY INN, WEST BRIDGE STREET
Photo above: Taken from old postcard, the Railway Inn was perhaps one of the buildings behind the station house Listed…
CLAREDON, 9 WEST AVENUE
The Clarendon Park area of Leicester dates from 1870 – 1880s. The Clarendon pub was granted a licence IN September…
RED LION, 110 WELLINGTON STREET
The Red Lion, just inside from East Street North/West side of Wellington Street. A circa 1850s beerhouse, in 1870 the…
DUKE OF WELLINGTON, 74 WELLINGTON STREET
Photo above: The Duke of Wellington, circa 1920, showing a cobbled Wellington Street. Recorded in 1820. William Wheat recorded as…
OLD FLYING HORSE, 20 WELLINGTON STREET
(by Barry Lount & Chris Jinks) More reading on James Cook can be found in a booklet by D. Clarke…
WOODMAN’S STROKE – DE MONTFORT – WIG & PEN – COURTHOUSE – PAUSE – THE PUB, 19 WELLINGTON STREET
William Arnold certainly ran a beerhouse called the Woodman’s Stroke, in 1840 with his wife, Elizabeth, until circa 1870. Elizabeth…
Q BAR, 15 WELLINGTON STREET
Circa 2008. No other information on this bar, other than it became the LGBT centre for Leicester – part of…