These are mainly Restaurants with bar facilities and are on different locations on the complex we list them on one…
MELVILLE ARMS, MELVILLE STREET
Photo above: Circa 1930s. The flags are out, a royal celebration of some kind outside the Melville Arms Sometimes the…
HERALD OF PEACE – OWL & PUSSYCAT, MELTON ROAD
Opened in June 1959, with a licence from the Joiners Arms, Highcross Street. It ran for many years by the…
SPEEDWAY HOTEL – FOSSEWAY, 432 MELTON ROAD
Originally a private house that was turned in to a pub prior to World War II by Marstons. I don’t…
MANOR HOTEL – FESTIVAL, 557 MELTON ROAD
1950s pub built on the outskirts of Leicester, at the top end of Melton Road towards Thurmaston. Changed its name…
MELTON HOTEL, 197 MELTON ROAD
Charming 1906 photo of Melton Road with the Melton Hotel’s gable end prominent, a far cry from today’s ‘Golden Mile.’…
TIRANGA, 119 MELTON ROAD
Only a few doors from the Why Not Bar, photo above was taken in 2011. This cafe bar and restaurant,…
WHY NOT BAR – MELTON ROAD
Photo above taken in 2012. In its short opening life it courted trouble. By September 2012, after only a couple…
MARTEN INN – PADDY’S MARTEN INN, MARTIN STREET
The Marten Inn was built circa 1880. The earliest known record is from August 1882, when William Ward had been…
FALLOW DEER, MARSTON STREET
See Upper Conduit Street.