Angel, Station Street West, Foleshill
| Alternative Addresses: | Carpenter's Lane | ||
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1850 | 1870s | Beerhouse | |
| 1870s | c1985 | Angel | |
This was originally a farmhouse, which perhaps explains its position in a sort of no man's land behind the General Wolfe and between Foleshill Road and Station Street West.
The Hunt family appear to have been bakers in Carpenter's Lane since at least the early 1800s, but by April 1850 John Hunt had opened the Angel beer-house on the premises, as the Coventry Standard reported his being charged with after-hours drinking with two customers. John Hunt died in 1854 and his wife, Olivia, appears to have taken over the beer-house business, and is still running it in the 1861 census.
By the time of the 1971 census her son, John Croft Hunt, is running the bakery and acting as beer retailer. By 1881 he has a full publican's licence.
It stands on what was once the Great Heath estate. Adjoining the pub were the pitches of the Lilywhite Sports Club, the official name of the Great Heath Football Club, who used the Angel as their dressing rooms. In 1901 the Foleshill Lilywhite fete was held on these fields but I am afraid I have no idea what the relevance of 'Lilywhite' is.
In 1900 Carpenters Lane was renamed Station Street West - one of a dozen streets to be renamed that year to resolve the inevitable name clashes that happen whenever the city's boundary is extended.
The ANGEL was variously known, depending on the newspaper reporter, as the ANGEL INN or the ANGEL HOTEL.This is a sign used since the Middle Ages reflecting the connection between religious establishments and travellers' inns and hostels at that time. | |||
LICENSEES:1850 - 1854 John Hunt (died 1854) 1854 - 1861 Olivia Hunt, baker and retailer of beer (widow of John Hunt, died May 1888) 1871 - 1880 John Croft Hunt 1886 - 1889 Ambrose Randle 1891 John Thomas Hill 1891 Alfred Arthur Elisha Oldham 1892 - 1905 Mark Dalton 1909 William J. Lissaman 1909 - 1912 John Rollason 1912 - 1914 Alfred Chaplin 1914 Joseph Morris 1914 - 1916 Ernest Arthur Allen 1921 J. Bishop 1924 - 1940 William Ward 1961 Leo Thompson 1968 - 1970 Glyn Orchard 1985 George Hamilton | |||
OWNERS:1961 - 1985 Ansells | |||
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