Photo above: Woman believed to be Emily Lane, the last landlady before the White Cow closed in 1907. The White…
ROPEMAKERS ARMS, 23 WILLOW BRIDGE STREET
Originally the area was known for rope making: Ed Browett, a ropemaker, employed over twenty five men at number’s 23-25…
WANLIP INN, 21 (LOWER) WILLOW STREET
Sometime listed as in Willow Street, as it stood on corner Wanlip Street and Lower Willow Street. In 1866,…
HAVELOCK INN, 48 WILLOW STREET
Charles Agar comes across as quite a character: an entrepreneur in manufacturing who divided opinion. It is hard to get…
LEEDS TAVERN, 109 WILLOW STREET
Leeds Tavern once stood on the corner of Willow and Brierley Street. Benjamin Whitehead kept an unnamed beerhouse in 1863…
WILLOW TREE, 91 WILLOW STREET
Photo above: Circa 1912. Everards copyright. The Willow Tree once stood at the corner of Willow Street and Brunswick Street.…
OLIVE BRANCH, 1 WILLOW STREET
Photo above: J Zienteck circa 1940s. James Bollard was granted a licence c1862 in this rapidly growing area of the…
SLATERS ARMS, 36 WILLIAM STREET
Circa 1860, William Foster was landlord. He was a Slater who ran a grocer’s shop in Baker Street, moving to…
SPA TAVERN, 2 WILLIAM STREET/Nicols St
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…