Stood next door to Bar Gaudi, Rockafellas opened circa 2011. By 2015, the Rockafellas’ was business closed and up for sale.…
SECRET JAZZ COMPANY – MOSQUITO COAST – BAR GAUDI, MOSH, ST NICHOLAS PLACE
February 1993, saw the opening of the Mosquito Coast World Music Bar by Andy & John Hussain, in the building…
ST MARGARET’S INN, 1 ST MARGARET’S STREET
Often recorded as North St Margaret’s Inn, as it stood on the North side of the church. St Margaret’s Inn…
IBIS, ST GEORGE’S WAY
The Ibis in St. George’s Way is a modern hotel with a public bar and is still very much open…
BRICKMAKERS ARMS – CAROUSEL FUN PUB, ST GEORGE STREET
Photo above of Brickmakers Arms, circa 1930 (Nick Miller Collection) – around the time it was rebuilt. ALSO SEE BRICKMAKERS…
HELSINKI, 94 RUTLAND STREET
Helsinki Bar, opened 1983 (photo above, 1992) in the old Herbert Marshall music shop. Retaining the original shop sign, it…
SPARKS BAR, DIELECTRIC, QUEEN VICTORIA’S ARTS CLUB – ORTON’S BRASSERIE, 41 RUTLAND STREET
This fine old Victorian building (built circa 1897 for the Queen’s Jubilee), once called the Queen’s Chambers, fell into disrepair…
THE EXCHANGE, 50 RUTLAND STREET
Cassie Davison, late of the Entropy, on Hinckley Road, transformed this beautiful Victorian designed building, turning it into a multi…
MANHATTAN, MANHATAN 34, REAL ALE CLASSROOM, 34-38 RUTLAND STREET
Opened by Chris Baker, ex-Time Bar manager, in what is now termed ‘the cultural quarter,’ close to the Curve theatre…
WOODMANS ARMS, 18 RUTLAND STREET
Thomas Porter was a victualler of the Woodmans Arms in an 1818 directory. John Deacon was there by 1827. William…