Photo above: Court B of Bishop Blaze Yard in the map is indicated as Parish workhouse. The buildings in the…
ADMIRAL CHARLES NAPIER – SIR CHARLES NAPIER, 13 CAUSEWAY LANE
Photo above: Outside the Sir Charles Napier, possibly during the Sawbridge tenure, with the obligatory terrier getting in the picture. …
CORONATION, 201 CATHERINE STREET
The Coronation was built in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI. In 1986, a plot to assassinate…
WOOLPACK, 109 CATHERINE STREET
Photo above: Circa 1979. Built circa 1879. Situated on the corner of Catherine and Surrey Street. Henry Hickinbottom became landlord…
HORSE & JOCKEY, 24 CATHERINE STREET
Photo above: circa 1960s. Originally fronting Dorset Street, the Horse & Jockey circa 1874-1968, closed and was then re-built fronting…
BEEHIVE – BLACK-A-MOOR-LADY – CASTLE BOWLING GREEN, CASTLE YARD
A Blackamoors Head is recorded 1776 no address given. See LEICESTER CASTLE, OLD CASTLE-Castle View A conundrum, the above may…
CASTLE INN, CASTLE VIEW
Photo above: Bas Deacon and ‘Ruddles’ the dog, taken on the 20th of July 2018, outside the newly opened Castle…
LEICESTER CASTLE – CASTLE (OLD), 12 CASTLE VIEW (See also BEEHIVE, Blackamoor Lady Castle yard)
Photo above: The original Old Castle Inn , (with Rupert’s Gateway to the left), owned by the Duchy of Lancaster,…
ROSE – TALBOT – BELL – WHEATSHEAF, CASTLE STREET
Photo above: What this Victorian map can see is both corners of Castle and Southgate Street. It could be the…
MARQUIS OF GRANBY, 16 CASTLE STREET
Photo above taken between 1911-12, when Frank Squires was landlord. The two children are Frank’s son Harry and daughter May.…