Here is what we think is the only comprehensive record of pubs and beerhouses within the Coventry city boundaries going back as far as available records allow. This is an ongoing project so contributions, corrections or additions to this archive, especially anecdotes, photos and media are most welcome. Feel free to contact us for a pint and a chat anytime.
Beerhouse
| ADDRESS | 262 WALSGRAVE ROAD |
| ALTERNATIVE ADDRESSES | 18 CHURCH END, 2 CHURCH LANE, STOKE |
| THIS BECAME | ROSE AND CROWN INN c1877-1879 |
From 1868 to 1876 this was the BEERHOUSE, Stoke. In 1925 the license was surrendered in consideration of the removal of the license of the Oddfellows Arms in Bond Street to the new Rose and Crown, Stoke, which opened on 21st February 1925 and stands opposite what was then St Chad's, and is now St Michaels Church. The old pub was some distance from the present one, standing opposite Briton Road near the busy Brays Lane/Clay Lane junction on Ball Hill. In the early years of the twentieth century, the landlord was Walter Cramp, who ran the pub with a rod of iron and refused to let women inside. In those days it was a village local; now it has been swallowed up by suburbia. In 1984 the pub looked good from the outside with hanging baskets, window boxes and coloured glass panels, whilst the interior was rampant Victoriana throughout with flock wallpaper in the bars and striped in the snugs. |
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| Licensees for the Rose and Crown are 1879 Richard Kimberley 1880 Andrew Samuel fawson 1888 Charles Blockley 1892 - 1913 John Fellows junior 1919 - 1940 Walter H. Cramp 1955 - 1962 Harold L. Styrgess 1985 Albert East |
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