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DEW DROP, 44 CHESTER STREET

Photo above: Dew Drop in foreground with lamp outside corner of Chester and Denmark Street. As you look along the…

Chester St.

FOUNTAIN INN – MOTTS LIQUOR & SPIRIT VAULTS – FOUNTAIN TAVERN – MARKET TAVERN, 12 CHEAPSIDE

The Fountain Inn or sometimes known as the Fountain Tavern stands on part of the site upon which the ancient…

Cheapside

COUNTY ARMS, 42 CHESTER STREET

Photo above: The address was usually given as 42 Chester Street, the pub standing on the corner of Chester Street…

Chester St.

NEW LEICESTER TAVERN – TURKS HEAD, CHESTER STREET

Photo above: One of three beerhouses more or less next to each other, here  pictured on the corner of Chester…

Chester St.

HAUNCH OF VENISON, CHEAPSIDE

There is one reference of the Haunch of Venison, on Cheapside, in the 1815 directory.  Its exact location is unknown.…

Cheapside

TAILORS ARMS, 41 CHATHAM STREET

There is reference in the 1815 Directory as the Taylors Arms, although in the 1822 Directory it is spelt Tailors…

Chatham St.

JOINERS ARMS, 23 CHATHAM STREET

There are various references to the Joiners Arms: On the 7th of June 1854, a newspaper article mentions a militia…

Chatham St.

NOTTINGHAM PYFLET HOUSE, 17 CHATHAM STREET

Referenced in 1862 directories as a having licence, with John Keeling listed as a muffin and crumpet maker. Pyflets were…

Chatham St.

CHATHAMS – MAD AS FISH – KODE RED – DRAGONFLY – OFFICE – HOWLIN WOLF – DECADES – BOROQUE, 3 CHATHAM STREET

Opened as Chathams Bar in April 1999. The Chathams Mad as Fish sign soon followed. In 2001 the bar was…

bars, Chatham St.

SEVENTYZ, 52 CHATHAM STREET

Stood on the corner of Albion Street/Chatham Street, although a Victorian building it only opened with a full licence in…

Albion St., bars, Chatham St.

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