The White Lion can be seen accessible from Market Place or Cank Street. Development has taken place around it. The…
QUEENS – DOG & GUN – QUEENS HOTEL – GRANVILLE HOTEL, MARKET STREET/WELFORD PLACE
Known as the Dog and Gun circa 1815-1890. Stood on the corner Market Street/Welford Place. Early directories list the address…
GREYHOUND, MARKET PLACE
JR has in his listings a Greyhound in the Market Place in 1650. There is no other conformation of this.…
KINGS HEAD, MARKET PLACE
A Kings Head was recorded in the 1745 recognizance orders as being in the Market Place.
ROUNDHEAD INN (TAVERN), MARKET PLACE
JR records a Roundhead in the Market Place, 1650. In the same year, ‘item paid at ye meeting of Mr…
ORIENTAL CAFE, 18 MARKET PLACE
The original Winn’s Café, called the Oriental circa 1892. By 1920, the Oriental Café was occupying numbers 14, 16, 18…
45 GIN SCHOOL, INSIDE No 9 MARKET PLACE
Lean to make your own gin: sit on long bench go through the process via a talk by one of…
LITTLE CROWN, MARKET PLACE
Photo above: Militia parade, in front of area of market place where the Victorian fish market was eventually to go.…
GAINSBOROUGH, CORN EXCHANGE (MARKET PLACE)
As early as 1533 there stood some kind of municipal building, often used by the Corporation Merchants. Billson’s Medieval Leicester…
WHITE SWAN, YE OLD WHITE SWAN – MARKET PLACE
LRO has ‘Leicester notes and queries’ written in 1889, where it mentions: “White Swan in the Market Place, a very…