(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…
BUSINESS BAR – LA HACIENDA – BAR 1 – SAUCE – CINNAMON RED – AQUA LOUNGE – H TWO 0, 3 WELLINGTON STREET
Business Bar opened next door to Vaults circa 1988, about four years later changed to La Hacienda. Eventually it was…
VAULTS – ATLANTIS – BASEMENT, 1 WELLINGTON STREET
The Vaults was born out of an idea from myself who, together with Bill Allingham and property owner, Simon Postlethwaite, …
MORGANS BAR – WELFORD BAR & GRILL, ALZAIN KITCHEN 479 WELFORD ROAD
Morgans Bar pictured in 2007 (photo above), one of a couple in Leicester. The area which was once in Knighton,…
STORKS HEAD – FUZZOCK & FIRKIN – DONKEY, WELFORD ROAD
Pre 1870, referred to as in Knighton or Knighton Road. In 1867, John Clewes, aged about twenty-four, was licensee of…
NEW ROAD INN, 201 WELFORD ROAD
In 1869, there was entertainment in the grounds of the New Road Inn beerhouse, also at the Victoria Pleasure gardens…
TURKS HEAD, 107 WELFORD ROAD
Photo above: Circa 1971. Recorded 1828 – John Williamson victualler. Williamson died 1830. There are references to a Turks Head…
MARQUIS OF GRANBY, 61 WELFORD ROAD
Photo above: Circa 1906, states ‘FINE HOME BREWED ALES J Chaplin’(found in Everards archive). Charles Davenport was the first licensee…