On 29th December 1843 a meeting of Freemen was held at the Bee Hive Tavern. It was a home-brew pub until c1920.
In February 1931 it was decided not to renew the licence for the Beehive due to redundancy. The decision of the Justices did not take place until the 27th May the following year, however, and compensation was agreed at £5,100 in April 1933. The pub closed within a month or so of that.
The beehive has long been a symbol of industry. It must also have appealed as a pub sign because of its distinctive shape.
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LICENSEES:1845 William Reeves (died 19th Sep 1845)
1850 Joshua Thompson
1852 - 1855 Joseph Cramp (died 3rd Jan 1855)
1855 - 1858 Benjamin Kingdom senior
1858 Thomas Cleaver
1861 Edward Dann
1861 - 1863 Patrick Kelly
1863 - 1864 Elijah Rollason
1864 - 1865 William Wilkins
1865 - 1867 Samuel Russell
1867 - 1869 James Barr
1869 - 1872 Samuel Russell
1872 - 1875 John Deeming
1875 - 1878 George Burson
1878 - 1888 John William Twigger
1888 - 1900 Charles Faulconbridge (died Dec 1900)
1900 - 1927 Emma Ellen Faulconbridge (widow of Charles)
1929 - 1930 Albert Victor Caldicott
1930 - 1933 Walter John Watts
BREWERS:
These roughly correlate to the licensees
to 1877 George Barson
1877 - 1884 William J. Twigger
1884 - 1887 John William J. Twigger [are these the same person?]
1887 - 1898 Charles Faulconbridge
1898 - 1920 Mrs Emma Ellen Faulconbridge
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OWNERS:1878 Thomas King, Cook Street, Coventry
later Charles Falconbridge, c/o James Richardson, Carlton House, Holyhead Road
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Street plan of 1851 |
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