Franklin’s Bar, June 2002. (Photo above), customer in doorway giving the Churchillian salute. Muzzy’s Bar was named after Muzzy…
WY BAR, 56 QUEENS ROAD
Next door to Barceleneta, Wy Bar opened sometime in 2004. It didn’t really set the place alight and soon closed…
BAR DOS HERMANOS, QUEENS RD.
Opened sometime in 2002, a Cuban style American bar by John & Andy Hussein, who previously bought the Mosquito Coast,…
BAKERS ARMS, 39 QUEEN STREET (EAST SHORT STREET)
(Photo above), The Bakers Arms, shows the pub sign on corner East Short Street. Baker, Thomas Platt obtained a beer…
MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY INN – ENGINE HOTEL, 12 QUEEN ST.
Built as the Midland Counties Railway Inn, circa 1840 and named after the railway company. In 1842, the victualler was…
DRY DOCK, PUTNEY ROAD EAST
Bass Brewery lowered a fifty ton barge on a plot on Putney Road, just off Welford Road, and opposite the…
HEN & CHICKENS – STAG & HOUNDS, PROVIDENCE PLACE
Known by locals as the ‘Chicks’ right up to its closure. Earliest known record is an 1828 auction of household…
PRESTON ARMS, 22 PRESTON STREET
In 1884 Joseph Hill was charged with selling milk during closing time. On his promise not to re-offend he was…
CLOWES ARMS, PORTSMOUTH Rd (EX PORTLAND STREET, OFF LOUGHBOROUGH ROAD)
First known record was 1875, when Joseph Cooper transferred the licence of the Clowes Arms (named after Samuel Clowes, Leicester…
PORTOBELLO, 15 PORTER STREET
Frederick Tebbutt transferred his licence to John Thomas Woodcock in December 1880. David Dale was there in 1883 right through…