Photo above: A much used picture. Bill White’s shop circa 1955, Brook Street awaiting demolition in the Leicester slum clearance…
WARWICK CASTLE, 57 BROOK STREET
Photo above: The Warwick Castle building still standing c 1955. At number 57 stood the grand sounding Warwick Castle. In…
KING WILLIAM – LORD MELBOURE (SOMETIME KNOWN AS MELBOURNE INN) – DERBY ARMS, BROWN STREET/UPPER BROWN
The above ad fro April 1825, LC containing the King William recently erected. Predating the 1830 Beer Act 16th Oct…
BREWERS ARMS, BRITANNIA STREET
There is a reference to a Brewers Arms in Britannia Street on the 15th of November 1833, when John Hefford…
WELCOME TRAVELLER, BRITANNIA STREET
The 1840 directory lists a Welcome Traveller in Britannia Street, no address given. The area off of Belgrave Gate was…
SHAKESPEARE, BRAUNSTONE LANE
Circa 1954, saw a row of old cottages converted into the thatched pub known as the Shakespeare by Everards brewery.…
LOAF – SUGAR LOAF – TRANSYLVANIA – DOG HOUSE BAR, (Crafty Dog bar)64 BRAUNSTONE GATE
Another adaptation of an old Victorian building into a café-bar, this one opened as the Loaf in March 2000 –…
FREEMASONS ARMS – BRAUNSTONE GATE BREWERY – BRAUNSTONE GATE INN – COMMON ROOM – VERDE – BAR 66 – MANHATTAN LOUNGE – GATE 66 – MOOD BAR, 66 BRAUNSTONE GATE. Secret Garden
Photo above: Circa, 1900, showing LBM signage, the name of the pub is still Braunstone Gate Brewery. 1830,s ran by…
LOOKING GLASS – WEST END BREWERY, 66-68 BRAUNSTONE GATE
The Looking Glass, aptly named, opened in 2001 in an old mirror shop. It retained the old shop front, blending…
LUNABLU – SUMO, 54 BRAUNSTONE GATE
Situated in and at the rear of an old factory block, the Lunablu opened in March 2000, on three levels…