Photo from the Nick Miller collection. Samuel Street lay just off Southampton Street, and the Railway Arms was used by…
THE LOUNGE BAR, SAFFRON LANE
Opened in May 2003, after a successful planning application to turn existing premises to a restaurant/bar. The Lounge Bar soon…
CITY ARMS, SAFFRON LANE
Delivery day in this charmingly posed photo above. Everards built the City Arms circa 1925, stating that it was to…
MIDLAND RAILWAY HOTEL – MIDLAND RAILWAY INN, SAFFRON LANE (LANSDOWNE ROAD)
The Midland Railway Hotel (to use its full title), was built circa 1884, with Robert Davis as landlord, and owner…
PIPEMAKERS ARMS, 71 ST SAVIOUR’S ROAD (CORNER CHARNWOOD STREET)
The property was built circa 1870, on land purchased by stonemason Alfred Gibbins. He gained a beerhouse licence, eventually transferring…
IMPERIAL, ST SAVIOUR’S ROAD
1876 Wm Brown was granted a provisional licence for the proposed building, later that year, Joseph Isaac Hallam, a Mere…
BLACK BOY, ST SAVIOUR’S ROAD
The first known record is from 1878, when William Brown was landlord. John Weston 1883, John Hunt 1884 with Samuel…
BOWLING GREEN INN, ST PETER’S LANE
Also recorded as Bowling Green House and the Vauxhall Bowling Green, after the nearby Vauxhall Gardens. Recorded in the recognizance…
PUZZLER, ST NICHOLAS STREET
The 1851 census records shows William Whatten as victualler in the Puzzler, St Nicholas Street, and George Evans, innkeeper in…
LEATHER BOTTLE – ALDERMAN NEWTON, ST NICHOLAS STREET
Circa 1838, the Alderman Newton School was established on the corner of Holy Bones and St Nicholas Street, together with…