Photo above: The Royal Artilleryman, 93 Church Gate. This picture shows nos 91-97 right to left. The shop, E. Sharp…
UNDECIDED – BLAZE – MIXED, 73B CHURCH GATE
Opened circa 1999, with ex Leicester city captain, Simon Grayson, a co-owner. Simon was the first Leicester City captain to…
FAGIN’S – CASONOVA’S – ISLA TEQUILA – DV8 – ONYX Granary Mews – COURTYARD BAR & VENUE, 69 CHURCH GATE
Had a few incarnations around the 1960s and 70s I suppose the most well remembered was the Green Bowler Coffee…
BENTLEY’S BAR – TEMPTATIONS, CHURCH GATE/MANSFIELD STREET
Bentley’s Bar opened in 2006 in the old courts ironmongers’ shop that had been there for decades. Church Gate had…
FISH & QUART – AFTER DARK – GATSBYS – BRANNIGANS – EMPERIE, 65 CHURCH GATE
Photo credit Chris Pyrah 1750’s kept by George Croxton, 1758 Samuel Tupman a sergeant in Colonel Boscawens Regiment of Foot…
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HOUSE – NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE – LOUGHBOROUGH HOUSE – PEGGOTTY’S ROSIE O’ BRIENS – ROSIES – SUN VERTIGO, 29 CHURCH GATE
c1960. Directories show list of licensees from the 1820s when Issac Gray was there until c1829: a Mr Bainsell then…
COACHMAKERS ARMS, 13 CHURCH GATE
March 1846 There was held a meeting at the Coachmakers Arms in Church Gate of beerhouse keepers. Was the beerhouse…
WINDMILL, 7 CHURCH GATE
The upper façade, next to the Cricket Players, is the date 1771. There is a doubt if this was part of…
CRICKET PLAYERS – LONG STOP – PINCH OF SNUFF – GATEHOUSE – CHURCH GATE TAVERN, SYNERGY- CHURCH GATE
A Georgian pub originally, but rebuilt early part of the twentieth century. (c1912) The origin of the name supposedly stems…
BARLEY SHEAF, 13 CHRISTOW STREET
Photo above: White House marked G, Barley Sheaf, J next to Brunswick Brewery which fronts A in Upper Brunswick St,…