On the corner of High Street and Highcross Street, J. D. Wetherspoon converted a retail lighting shop into one of…
LITTEN TREE – RED HOT, 91-93 HIGH STREET
Opened in October 2000, just after the Queen of Bradgate next door and, suffered the same fate – it closed…
QUEEN OF BRADGATE, 93 – 97 HIGH STREET
Opened in 1999, in a disused furniture warehouse but lasted only a decade. Put up for sale in 2010. It…
SHOULDER OF MUTTON – HAUNCH OF VENISON – ORANGE TREE – THE TREE, 99 HIGH STREET
Elizabeth Watson’s husband obviously stayed on at the Shoulder of Mutton as his death was reported on the 5th of…
CROWN – YE OLDE CROWN – COOPERS DINING & REFRESHMENT ROOMS, HIGH STREET
Recorded as early as 1560. In the 1880s, it became known as Dining and Refreshment Rooms occupied in 1883 by…
HARE & PHEASANT, 87 HIGH STREET
Photo above: The Hare & Pheasant, taken by Eric Swift, shortly after its closure to become a Post Office, circa…
RENOIR, HIGH STREET
1990s café-bar next to the entrance to the new Shires Shopping Centre.
CRUMBLIN’ COOKIE – COOKIE, 68 HIGH STREET
The Crumblin’ Cookie coffee bar became popular circa 2012, being advertised as ‘more than just a coffee bar’, with alcoholic…
ROEBUCK, 46 HIGH STREET
A Georgian building dating to late 1700s. Known as the ROE-BUCK 1815 Mr Charles Lewis licensee, by 1818 Mary Smith,…
LION – KINGS ARMS – WATTS & SONS – CHURCHILL – WINSTONS – SPENCERS – BARNABYS – TWENTY ONE – LAMP LIGHTERS – JUMPING JACKS – SPENCER’S – FINCHY’S, HIGH STREET (SWINESMARKET)
The Lion was recorded in 1509. John Barker was tenant of a ‘hospice’ at the sign of the Lion in…