Opened sometime in June 2016. The Pub History Project – Leicester has a Podcast. Please click below, subscribe and have…
HOGANS BAR – OLIVES, QUEENS ROAD
Hogans Bar – one of four or five Hogans to open in Leicester around the late 1990s. This was on…
CAULDRON – CULTURE – MOOW-100&SIX, 106 QUEENS ROAD
The Cauldron opened sometime in 2004, again this didn’t last too long. It stood empty for a while, whilst major…
FRANKLINS BAR (MUZZY’S BAR), 80 QUEENS ROAD
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…