Photo above, looking from Vaughn Way. The corner brickwork building is the Pineapple. The Welcome Inn is bottom of the…
CANK WELL – GOLD LACED HAT COFFEE HOUSE – NOONS COFFEE HOUSE, SPINNING WHEEL, WARDS COFFEE HOUSE CANK STREET
Reference in recognizance orders as licenced, and also in deeds of 1754 as the Gold Laced Hat Coffee House. July…
WHITE LION, CANK STREET
This stood between Cank Street and the Market Place, one of Leicester’s most prestigious Inns of the time. Will be…
SCOTCH ARMS, CANK STREET
One reference in the 1781 recognizance order.
33 CANK STREET, CANK STREET
Photo below: View from Cank St with the ornate former Nat West Bank (St Martins Bank) which had stood empty…
RAILWAY HOTEL – ROYAL MAIL, 20 CAMPBELL STREET.
The newly built station entrance on Campbell Street (see photo below). The Railway Hotel was to accommodate passengers to the…
TERMINUS – TERMINUS HOTEL, 16 CAMPBELL STREET
Joseph Gray held a beerhouse licence c1870. A license was granted to Charles Horsefall circa 1873 at the Terminus Hotel,…
CREWE AND HARPERS ARMS, CALAIS STREET
The Leicester Chronicle on the 3rd of November 1838, records a two-roomed beerhouse in Calais Street called the Crewe and…
FREEBORN ENGLISHMAN – SALMON, BUTT CLOSE LANE
Photo above of the Salmon taken pre 1981 (information from Chris Pyrah) – a shame the pictorial sign was taken down.…
HALF TIME ORANGE – SYMPHONY, 121 BURNMORE STREET
This was an ex South Leicester Working men’s club, as the fashion for working men’s clubs began to wane many closed…