Gosford Street

Primrose: I found this for someone else who was asking about The Blue Pig PH : The Blue Pig - it appears on Old Maps in 1888 between Ct13 and Ct14, and it is still marked on the 1905 map - this would make it no.33 Gosford Street In Spennell's 1912 Directory no.33 is Pennant Engineering Co (sidecar specialists) so it looks as if it ceased to be a pub in the early years of the 20th century The 1901 Census for no.33 shows Joseph Haycock, licensed victualler, but no reference to a pub name, and in 1911 there is a tailor living at no.33

LOL, it was officlally the Blue Boar Inn but locally referred to as the 'Blue Pig'. It became a cafe around 1907 but was the oddly-named 'Jordan Well Post Office' when I lived in Gosford Street:

Thank you very much, gentlemen, for your responses. Mum will have no problem knowing where this was. My money is on Court 14 being Blue Pig Yard but it could easily be Court 13, I suppose. Thanks again!

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Dutchman, What would roughly be the numbers of the properties in the vicinity of the old Malthouse? I wondered because I did find some details in the newspapers archive of Gosford Street properties being demolished.. Council Meeting Proposals and Decisions... January 1901... "That the necessary steps be taken for the compulsory purchase of Nos. 126, 127 and 128 Gosford Street." October, 1903.. "decided to pull down nos. 124 and 125, Gosford Street, and the cottages at the rear adjoining on the east side the new street from Gosford Street to Whitefriars Street. Another view.. Gosford Street

On the 1901 census, 126/127 Gosford Street was recorded as Marry's, a Chemist.

64 on one side of the street, 65 on the other. The Malthouse was at the bottom of Gosford Street, Whitefriars Street is at the top!

That's strange as in the 1912-13, Spennell's Directory it only goes up to 122, Sir Colin Campbell PH

That's because they were pulled down to create the north end of Whitefriars Street. The Colin Campbell replaced an earlier pub called "The Griffin".

This is a close up from an aerial view of Gosford Street in 1930 showing The New Inn. Note the totally different style of windows and that the public entrance was on the side away from the camera, not facing the street.

I don't know if I got this link from you guys in the first place but it's worth repeating. [Sadly, the link given no longer exists] Quite a few of Gosford street just before it turns into Far Gosford. St Georges Chapel and a building that used to be next to the Gate. The funny curved triangular thing in the wall by the first floor window was supposed to be the shoulder bone of the Dun Cow but was probably a whale shoulder bone. The buildings were where the Old Malt House was built. Here's another picture of the gate done by Dr Troughton I believe but I think the gate had actually gone by the time he drew it. It could have been copied from earlier drawings of which the Pictures of Coventry web site has several. Gosford Gate Both Dr Troughton and William Henry Brooke have left fantastic pictures of medieval Coventry.

The view from the gateway would have looked like this:- Looking up Gosford Street (he New Inn is on the right.)

What isn't obvious from that sketch is just how far back from the street the buildings just beyond the New Inn were. You can also see that at one time part of the pub building was used as a separate shop and also the bottleneck created by the Old Malthouse on the right.

Yeah, it gets very confusing trying to match pictures to maps. The sketch is very accurate because I have an almost identical photograph except it shows one extra building on the right and four on the left. The first building on the sketch is the half building with the white walls in this photo Gosford street near site of Gate And the building with the funny sign next door but one on the sketch is the Peacock I think. I have very little success counting buildings and comparing them to the street plans.

Yes it is Helen. The Peacock was famously demolished and rebuilt on the same site in a complete different style some time between the sketch being made and the photograph being taken.