Photo credit above: Nick Miller Collection Supposedly named after a nearby spring claimed to have medicinal properties. Circa 1850, Robert…
HOPE, WIGSTON STREET
Wigston Street was laid out between Halford & Rutland Street. In January 1833, a case was bought up on information…
HORSES & GROOM, WHEAT STREET
First mentioned in May 1838, when a bakehouse and dwelling was advertised to let ‘Situate in Benford Street with passage…
NEW JOLLY ANGLER, 116 WHEAT STREET
1862 advert: ‘To Let. A Capital Beerhouse in Wheat Street. The New Jolly Angler.’ Thomas Blastock applied for and was…
WHEATSHEAF, 76 WHEAT STREET
Photo above John Zienteck. Circa 1946. Corner Wheat and Lead Street. The Wheatsheaf looks to be a Georgian building, the…
JOLLY MILLER, WHARF STREET
1836 -1837, no address given, but maybe a short lived beer house. Thomas Lewin was landlord and doesn’t appear in…
VICTORIA CROSS, 152 WHARF STREET
First recorded in October 1870, when the Beerhouse Keepers and Brewers Association met here – G. E. King was landlord.…
FELLMONGERS ARMS, 132 WHARF STREET
The first known recording of the Fellmongers Arms is a court case from October 1837, when the landlord, William Harriott…
JOLLY ANGLER, 122 WHARF STREET
Circa 1830, landlord was Thomas Woodcock. He was soon in trouble for serving ale during divine service. 1840 Wm Bailey…
UNION – RISING SUN, 120 WHARF STREET
Earliest recording in Wharf Street is from 1829, although Piggott’s directory of 1828 names a Union pub but with no…