The photograph below shows the horses standing in front of the Nag’s Head (now the Swan Inn)
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The photograph below shows the horses standing in front of the Nag’s Head (now the Swan Inn)
Continue reading “Bull’s Head”The Elders was a beer house during the mid-1800s just a few yards south of The Anchor (now a residential care home) on Loughborough Road, opposite the Stonehurst Family Farm and Motor Museum. Continue reading “The Elders – a beer house on Loughborough Road, Mountsorrel”
The Lindens pub, on Halstead Road, demolished in January 2014, was previously a private house.
The only reference found to this pub is a newspaper article from the Leicestershire Mercury
The building that originally stood on the corner of Market Place and Sileby Lane was once a pub called the Red Lion and was put up for sale by John Bacon on the 6th March 1815. Continue reading “Red Lion Pub and Butcher’s Shop”
King William IV was recognised as a Tavern or Public House (Pigot & Co Directory, 1835) Continue reading “King William IV Pub, Leicester Road, Mountsorrel”
Bull & Mouth pub, Leicester Road, Mountsorrel now trading as “Slate”. The origin of the name “Bull & Mouth” is believed to have been ‘Boulogne mouth’ relating to the capture of Boulogne by Henry VIII’s forces as a route into France. Continue reading “Bull & Mouth pub (trading as “Slate” restaurant & bar since 2008)”
Continue reading “Duke of York (now Waterside Inn), Sileby Road, Mountsorrel”
The Anchor Public house, originally a coaching inn (see picture below) was sold in 1896 by Mr Cecil F Scott to Mr Sharpe, brewer of Sileby. Continue reading “Anchor”