The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Aldermoor Hotel, Aldermoor Lane

This pub adopted the local place name, and opened its doors on Wednesday 6th October 1937, the morning after the Cheylesmore inn in Greyfriars Lane closed its doors having transferred its licence to this new pub. The premises were built on the site of a large pond, which had to be filled in and a concrete 'raft' placed on top of concrete piles, some well over 30 feet, sunk by a firm who had previously worked at Southampton Docks. This also meant that the pub was unable to have a cellar for storage, as digging down just a matter of feet produced water! Therefore the beer had to be kept in a room on the ground floor specially constructed with one-foot thick cork-lined walls to keep the temperature correct. By 2008 new houses had been built on the site of the former pub.

LICENSEES: 1937 Derwent William Ratliff 1937 - 1939 Maurice Hugh Greenaway (previously at the White Horse, East Street) 1939 - 1948 Walter Henry "Bluff" Arnold (ex-professional boxer and prize-fighter) 1948 Amy Arnold (widow of Walter) 1951 - 1952 Allan. J. Clarke 1955 - 1957 Albert J. Williams 1959 - 1961 James Leslie Nettleship 1980s Stuart Harris 1999 Jean and Tony McCallum