Name

Address

Comments

Bishop Blaize Inn

Stood near the old Liberal Club in the now demolished block of buildings at the junction of the Borough and Mansion Street

It was probably seventeenth century, half-timbered with brick in-fill. Pulled down in 1931 as part of a road widening scheme.
Picture is circa 1915

Blue Bell

8 Bond Street

Adjoining The Duke of Rutland. Opened circa 1774, demolished in 1931 for road widening at the junction of Mansion Street

Blue Boar

33 Regent Street

Formerly The King's Head was open in 1802. A fish shop by 1930

Boot Inn

25 Coventry Street (now Regent Street)

Demolished in 1954
Picture is old postcard of Fosse Harriers meet, c.1905

Britannia

15, Stockwell Head.

Opened circa 1809, closed & demolished circa 1910

Bull's Head Inn

6, Market Place

First recorded 1659, situated on the site at the foot of Castle Street now occupied by the Woolwich Building Society
George Canning, stayed here in 1807, famously describing it as '...the vilest inn, in the nastiest town, in the dirtiest country that imagination can conceive'. However, later that year he took up residence at Castle Hill House, staying until April 1811, when he moved to nearby Burbage. The inn was regularly used for assemblies etc. It was also used for sales of property, auctions and other business purposes. It had over thirty rooms and stabling for more than a hundred horses. In the 1840s it acted as the excise and posting office.

Cap And Stocking

Bond Street

Nothing known

Coventry Road

Nothing known

Commercial Inn

Market Place

Nothing known

Cross Keys

Upper Castle Street

Nothing known

Crown Hotel

78 Castle Street

Demolished 1980s to make way for Castle Court

Crown & Anchor

106 Castle Street

Closed in 1950s

Leicester Road or Mill St (Victoria St.)

Closed in 1850s

Dun Cow

Castle Street

Nothing known

Fox & Grapes

Bond Street.

Nothing known

Globe

Church Street

Junction of Church Street/Station Road, next to the present St. Mary's Junior School. Demolished 1905
Picture shows Station Road from the Market Place, c.1872, with the Globe Inn on the left.

Half Moon

43 Stockwell Head

On the site now occupied by the Britannia Centre. Demolished 1960
Picture 1960, awaiting the bulldozer.

Harrow Inn

Watling Street

Stood on the Watling Street (A5), close to where the Harrow Brook crosses the road. Originally a drovers' inn, later a popular venue for illegal bare-knuckle fights

Hollybush

1 Upper Bond Street

Appears in the CAMRA National Inventory of Pub Interiors

Remodelled in Moderne style in the 1930s, closed 2005
Picture - Currently (Mar 2006) boarded up, awaiting its fate.

Of over 60,000 pubs in the UK, a mere 250 have interiors of outstanding heritage interest, so this comes as a sad loss.

Horse & Jockey

Stockwell Head

Nothing known

Jolly Bacchus

1 Market Place

Reputedly built on the site of a Bakehouse It was a half-timbered building with stucco façade, prominent and somewhat grander than most of the public houses in the town. The brewhouse was alongside. Closed in 1920s
Photo c1900

Kings Head

69 Castle Street

Opened c1819, closed c1916. Sox Shop occupies part of original building.

Lichfield Tavern

Coventry Road

Open c1870,closed in 1960s. Demolished, stood near to Halls car park

Nag's Head

Castle Street

Records from 1809 until 1835.

Navigation

Coventry Road, near the present Wharf public house

Nothing known

New Inn

108 Castle Street

Closed 1973, was opposite Hill St.

Pig & Whistle

37 Regent Street

Later the Castle Inn, subsequently the Post Office and the Regent Club & Institute. Now shops.

Plough

21 Stockwell Head

Records from 1682.It was known in its early days as the Pensioners Club. It was recorded that there were more pensioners in Hinckley than any other town of its size in England. Demolished 1906 (Hinckley Times)

Puncheon And Grapes

The Borough

Closed c1841

Red Lion

17 The Borough.

Demolished. Former coaching inn on the site now occupied by MacDonalds!

Red Lion

63-65 Castle Street

Previously the Black Boye. By 1847 it had been converted into a shop. The brew house still stands behind 67 Castle Street

Rose & Crown

Castle Street

Nothing known

Royal Oak

29 Mansion Street

Adjacent to Hinckley Liberal Club By 1930 it had become a house.

Star

18 Stockwell Head

Records from 1745, closed c1912 By 1930 it was a newsagent's premises.

Steering Wheel

Hollycroft

Originally Hollycroft House, the residence of Thomas Atkins, built c1874. Later known as 'The Spinning Wheel' (1982), and still later 'The Manor'. Demolished in 2002 and a private housing estate built on the site
Photo (far left) shows it boarded up, awaiting demolition.
Photo (left) shows the original house.

Sun

Stockwell Head

Nothing known

Three Tuns

7 Stockwell Head

Opened c1800, closed c1910

Town Hall Arms

1 Market Place

Closed. Was open for about 50 years until c1912. Occupied the town hall, built in 1806, and now the premises of Barclays Bank.

Venison Inn

Bond Street

Nothing known

Victoria Hotel

38 Castle Street

Built c1890 Closed July 1960 and then demolished for shop development

Waggon & Horses

The Wharf, Coventry Road

Closed c1850

White Hart

5 Market Place

Demolished 1976. Site now occupied by Yorkshire Bank

White Horse Inn

Market Place

Nothing known

White Lion

Lower Bond Street

Nothing known, demolished 1932