HARLEQUIN, 70 HUMBERSTONE GATE

Opened in 1998, but proved to be yet another short lived venture. By 1999, the Walkabout sports bar had taken … More

BANANAS, 66 HUMBERSTONE GATE

Licence granted in 1997, closed and up for sale within a year.

A Fountain was recorded in 1747 poss in Humberstone Gate licensee Thomas Drake (JR) The opening of the pub we … More

Circa 1815-1877, stood just before the Fountain. The Wyggeston Hospital Girls School was built on the site after the Horse … More

c1815 licensee was Charles Mallet. Recorded in 1821 as being that old and established public house near the Blue Bell,. … More

At no. 32 Humberstone Gate in 1860, next door to the Coach & Horses (a court of about fourteen cottages … More

Recorded sometimes as the Blue Bell prior to 1830, although sometime known as the Bell. Since February 1831 it was … More

Photo above: Craven Arms on right ‘Bar’ above front door. Plough seen in the centre with Worthington sign on side. … More

Photo above: Late 1950s picture of the Plough, owned by the well known Leicester family and beer bottlers, Hartopps. A … More

Martin and Elizabeth Collis would run the Admiral Nelson c1906-1914. having moved from Black Lion Belgrave Gate. Martin died 1912 … More