Photo above: Craven Arms on right ‘Bar’ above front door. Plough seen in the centre with Worthington sign on side.…
CROWN & PLOUGH – PLOUGH – OLD PLOUGH – CRYSTAL PALACE, HUMBERSTONE GATE
Photo above: Late 1950s picture of the Plough, owned by the well known Leicester family and beer bottlers, Hartopps. A…
ADMIRAL NELSON, 14 HUMBERSTONE GATE
Martin and Elizabeth Collis would run the Admiral Nelson c1906-1914. having moved from Black Lion Belgrave Gate. Martin died 1912…
STAG & PHEASANT, 6 HUMBERSTONE GATE
Below c1910 Humberstone Gate scene Stag & Pheasant on near left Came to prominence in the late 1700s ( Charles…
BARREL – RHINE WINE VAULTS – TOWER VAULTS, 4 HUMBERSTONE GATE
Photo above: circa 1950s. Stands nrxt door to Stag & Pheasant John Gisbourne was the licensee of the Barrel circa 1827.…
MAGNUM – CENTRE HOTEL – INTERNATIONAL HOTEL – STRIKES, HUMBERSTONE GATE
Built on the former Freeman Hardy and Willis site. It has had many changes of ownership and names, not originally…
OLD BLACK LION – PICKWICK – SKANDALS, HUMBERSTONE GATE
Indications are that the building is pre 1770s when fire broke out in the Black Lion stables in 1773. The…
CHAMPION – HANSOM CAB, 61 HUMBESTONE GATE
Apparently named after the racehorse ‘Champion’ who won the Epsom Derby and St Ledger in the same year, 1800. c1827…
GARDNER’S ARMS, 55 HUMBERSTONE GATE
LIBERTY’S MADDISONS, 57 HUMBERSTONE GATE
Photo above: Maddison’s, rear of 57 Humberstone Gate. Attractive walk through: in another position, this may have worked, but Humberstone…