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
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…