Off Belgrave Gate, the Shamrock stood on the corner of Orchard Street and Royal East Street. In the late 19th…
BLUE COCK – DUCHESS OF KENT – BLUE COCK, ORCHARD STREET/42 ROYAL EAST STREET
Intriguing name – could be a place of cock fighting or just someone who kept hens – doubtful if it…
RIFLE BUTTS, 29 NOTTINGHAM ROAD
Named after the nearby Crown Hills rifle (Spinney Hill) range which opened circa 1879. The Rifle Butts post dates the…
OLD MILL LANE – DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET
The Duke of Northumberland stood on Old Mill Lane at top of Northumberland St, just off Sanvey Gate, (Northgate Street…
BLACKSMITHS ARMS – STAG & HOUNDS, 48 NORTHGATE STREET
Stood on the corner of Northgate Street and Pringle Street. Earliest record thus far is August 1839, when John Barradell…
FORTUNE OF WAR – TIGER, 14 NORTHGATE STREET
The Fortune of War was known as the Tiger circa 1860s – 1871 before reverting to its reverted to its…
HORSE & JOCKEY, 10 NORTHGATE STREET
Piggot’s Directory of 1822 lists Northgate Street, Horse & Jockey. Auctioned in 1843, again in 1868, owned by James Coulson…
NAG HEAD – GREAT CENTRL – VAN DAMME’S, 2 NORTHGATE
Edward Bailey was recorded as keeping the Nags Head in 1815, and it kept its name until Everards purchased the…
ORANGE TREE, 55 NORTHGATE
Not until Sarah Sharpe circa 1820 did the pub seem have a name. JR writes that it existed at least…
FREEMASONS ARMS, YORK CASTLE – JOLLY BUTCHER, 45 NORTHGATE STREET
Formally the Freemasons Arms but from circa 1835 ran by John and Elizabeth York – so the inspiration for the…