Coventry Pubs

Five stars for that Rob. You have saved a valuable asset.

For Coventry, my second most used internet link was to the pub site. The third was to Pictures of Coventry. Britain From Above came next... Rob has kindly organised a feature where you can search by the road name. Very useful if you know that there was a pub but don't know what it was called.

And that "Street index" feature, if you recall Helen, is because of your own fantastic suggestion! So many thanks for that super idea.

Does anyone remember a pub crawl in the 1950s organised I believe by the rugby clubs of Coventry called the Coventry Walk? It entailed visiting twenty six pubs between The White Lion on Gosford Green and The Bowling Green in Spon St. A half a pint had to be drunk in each pub and a card signed by the landlord as proof. I think the route was along Far Gosford St, Gosford St, Jordan Well, Earl St, High St, Broadgate, Smithford St, Fleet St and Spon St. The pubs I can still recall were The White Lion, The Pitts Head, The Hertford Arms, The Hand and Heart, The Golden Cup, The Peacock (and one opposite next to Luckmans Bookshop?), The Fox and Vivian, The Oak, The Colin Campbell, The Acorn, The Dun Cow, The Mermaid, The Rose and Crown, The Craven Arms, Waters Wine Bar, The Shakespeare, The Rising Sun, The Windmill, The Bowling Green. Can anyone remember the rest?

Great work as always Rob I think for the purposes of Old-Coventry research we need to start sampling more of them!

Rob, I appreciate the option. I had set up a clunky Excel based version for myself but figured you could do it properly. Neil, even though I've got copies of stuff, I still prefer using Rob's interface. The pub site is a grand addition. I found my way around the old city because of the building numbers. Speaking of which - The Magnet on Smithford Street was number 20 (south side just west of the Barracks in 1911.) You can just see the tips of the magnet in the street scene below and a better shot from a picture at street level.

jonboy, with that number of pubs, did all of them get back home yet, and can the others remember anything?

Fantastic find for me as I have just found out my grandfather, Frederick J Toseland, held the licence for the Brewer and Baker from 1929 to 1932.

Hadn't heard of that pub before, Helen Rob, might be worth getting Fred to add that one as there's no image of it on the CPH site

I'll bet Fred (!) would love to have those photos on the site.... but do you know where they're from or who owns them?

The top one is from the library but I can't remember where I got the other one from. It's part of a bigger picture of a Godiva procession. Ha, found it - here crossh9 posted it back in 2013. It's the 1911 procession.

Thank you Helen - I should've checked the image-file name, shouldn't I !? I've just written to "crossh9" to ask permission to use the photo. She hasn't posted since 2014, but you never know!

Hadn't see this one before - The Gate Tavern on Howard Street

Not sure, it's been many years ago but was The Gate also called The Gate Hangs Well, just down the road from the Three Shuttles, it had a sign showing a gold gate. My mother lived and brought up in 22 George St, gran and my aunts and uncles lived in George St until they eventually passed away. The Gate, the Shuttles and the Woodbine were their "locals" along with the Stanton Club and the Howitzers

Yes lolipop