A reference is made to a pub called the Stocking in a directory of 1831. A Stocking Yard was next…
TALBOT, 59 DENMAN STREET
Photo taken in 1946 John Zeinteck. Built in 1827, the Talbot also had an entrance from the parallel Brook Street.…
LORD DENMAN, 53 DENMAN STREET
A ‘to let’ advert in the Leicester Chronicle of 3 October 1840 featured ‘A Lord Denman to let with Piggeries.’…
CROWN AND COMPASS – ROSE OF ENGLAND, 15 DENMAN STREET
A beer house in a mid-Victorian area off Wharf Street. John Kennedy was landlord from 1852. Joseph Brown was in-charge…
BELMONT HOTEL, 20 DE MONTFORT STREET
Originally built as a girl’s school circa 1861, later used as a tax office and YMCA amongst other things. Bought…
MIDLAND HOTEL – MIDSHIPMAN, DE MONTFORT SQUARE/PRINCES ROAD
Popular hotel bar, known as the Midshipman during the 1970s.
DANNETTS HALL – DANNETS HALL TAVERN, DANNET STREET
Photo above: Looking down Noble Street 1973, (sometimes the address was given as 46 Noble Street).photo L R O Stood…
JOINERS ARMS – RADFORD ARMS, CURZON STREET
View of part of Curzon St. The shop on the corner is recorded as a beer retailer in 1883, so…
CURZON ARMS, CURZON STREET/TAYLOR ST
Built circa 1860, by John Stevenson, local builder, complete with brewhouse (CP). It was in trouble straight away as William…
ROSE & CROWN – DIXIE ARMS/OLD DIXIE, 2 CURZON STREET/HUMBERSTONE ROAD
Photo above: Humberstone Road and the now Old Dixie (there was another Dixie Arms in Leicester), in its hey day…