Following his success as a partner in the Vaults (Wellington Street), which backed on to Goodfellas restaurant, Bill Allingham opened…
SPINNEY HILL TAVERN – SPINNEY HILL HOTEL, UPPER KENT STREET/MAIDSTONE ROAD
Upper Kent Street was renamed Maidstone Road. Photo above: Circa 1993. A Bass House,. Mentioned in 1865, when William Hanley…
TWO TRIANGLES, KERRIAL ROAD
Early 1960s licensees Syd and Ivy Chandler (The above three photos by kind permission of Michael Parker who tells us…
COACH & HORSES, KEDDLESTONE ROAD (OFF EVINGTON ROAD)
One of the few pubs built in Leicester between the wars, this in 1929. The licence was transferred from the…
JUNCTION INN, 45 JUNCTION ROAD/MELTON STREET
Built in 1863. Owned by local brewer Bates & Bishell from 1882, who eventually became LBM in 1891. The pub…
BRIDLE LANE INN – TAVERN, JUNCTION ROAD/BELGRAVE GATE
Originally called Bridle Lane, it was renamed as Junction Road circa 1862. Everards seemed to have bought the inn circa1902,…
AFRICAN KITCHEN & BAR, 6 JUBILEE ROAD
Jubilee Road, off Belgrave Gate. Photo above sometime in August 2015. The company formed circa 2013, and a major licence…
ANCHOR OF HOPE, 74 UPPER KENT STREET
Upper Kent St, with Anchor of Hope on the corner of Waring Street. A particularly long street of terraced houses,…
GEORGE & DRAGON, 11-13 KENT STREET
Picture credit: John Zienteck, circa 1948. So far the earliest report of the George & Dragon is c1843, when the…
LEICESTER CITY, JEWRY WALL STREET
Recorded during the 1830s-40s In April 1834, Stephen Daft, landlord of a beer shop in Jewry Wall Street was informed…