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HORSE & GROOM – HARE & PHEASANT – PACK HORSE – DUSTY’S – CASK & BOTTLE, 51 HUMBERSTONE GATE

The Horse & Groom in Huberstone Gate is recorded from 1790s but the original Horse & Groom stood next to…

Humberstone Gate

FOX & GOOSE, HUMBERSTONE GATE see FOX

Humberstone Gate

FOX & GOOSE, FOX, 13-17 HUMBERSTONE GATE

Photo above: 1896 photo commemorating the Prince of Wales’ (future Edward VII) visit to Leicester.  The Fox & Goose had…

Humberstone Gate

BOARD, ROSS & McKERGO VAULTS 5a HUMBERSTONE GATE

An old beerhouse, (JR) Has the Board recorded in 1843, run by Frederick Gill and there then followed by John…

Humberstone Gate

GRAPES – BUNCH OF GRAPES – ALLENS, 1 HUMBERSTONE GATE

Stood on the corner of Gallowtree Gate and Humberstone Gate, the centre of Leicester’s retail, fairs and street orators.  There…

Humberstone Gate

FLEECE, HUMBERSTONE GATE

An 1818 commercial directory listed John Cowley as victualler of the Fleece in Humberstone Gate.

Humberstone Gate

HORSESHOE INN, HUMBERSTONE GATE

In deeds of early 1700s, there is a mention of a Horseshoe Inn situated on the north side of Humberstone…

Humberstone Gate

SCARLET PIMPERNEL, HOWDEN ROAD

 Scarlet Pimpernel, built on the Eyres Monsell Estate, and opened in 1961. 1988 – Once again, the story of an…

Howden Rd.

SARACENS HEAD – MOLLY O’ GRADY’S – KNIGHT & GARTER, HOTEL STREET

Granted to Leicester Abbey, by William de Langley in 1312, the lease held by William Streth.  The sign derived from…

Hotel St.

SPIRITS – SOMMAR, 6 HOTEL STREET

Opened circa July 2018, in the old Cellini handbag store. Does what it says on the tin: dedicated to cocktails…

bars, Hotel St.

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