Coventry Pubs

Another one bites the dust, just read about the Leg and Cramp (the Chestnut) in Walsgrave closed down and to become flats. Owned by the same company as the Grange!!!!!!

The Bell in Tile Hill village certainly had one years ago, I remember a little pavilion on the right of it. As you say, now a big car park.

Dont forget the Standard in Eastern Green and the Hawthorn on Broad Lane. Both gone and houses built on the land.

And the Courthouse, Blackberry Lane, Stoke

My band played at The Courthouse about a year before it closed. The memorable thing about the occasion was afterwards as we packed our cars, the bride from the wedding party in the upstairs function room was just being arrested in the car park. Evidently she'd taken a swing at the barman - and connected. The police were reluctant to take her away on her wedding day - and in her bridal gown - and tried everything to calm her down. It didn't work. She punched the PC. We played again a couple of months later but it never happened again.....

Have we had The Phoenix on the A45/Broad lane....Now the Wing-Wah?

And the Fletch, now a car showroom

There was a bowling green at The Wyken Pippin - now the carpark!

I have a feeling there used to be a bowling green behind the William IV on the Foleshill Road. I seem to recall it fell out of use, and at one time it was used to stage summer six-a-side football tournaments. At some stage it was then covered in tarmac to become an overspill car park in the days when 'Pele' Bains ran the place as Coventry's first (and best) curry pub.

Change of use for the Elastic Inn: Public House - 8 Mar 2009 Student accommodation - 4 November 2013

What are the oldest public houses in Coventry (city centre area and suburbs) that are still used as pubs and roughly how old are they?

Hi Foxcote I`ve only just read this topic. I`ve looked up the Star and Raven on the Real Ale Rambles site which does list its address as Smithford Street and lists the licensee in 1835 as Richard Redgrave

Hi Dean, if you Google Real Ale Rambles it lists Coventry pubs past and present with some history. I have found this quite interesting reading

Thanks Mick, Sounds an interesting site. I will have a look. Cheers !

Thanks mickw I had forgotten about Mr. Grimes and the Star and Raven! I have just re-read the lot and quite a tale unfolded, it had the lot didn't it! The plot would have made a good novel, magic old pubs, his private life, reading the links there was the shock of the will concerning dubious marriages and the voyage to America. I wish all the sleuthing I do would turn out as exciting as that! A death was noted in the newspaper archive, James Redgrave, second son of Richard Redgrave of the Star and Raven, July 1834. The son was only 15 years of age. Sad times at the pub. Thanks again