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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Black Bear Inn, 37 Much Park Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1684	?	BLACK BEAR
	c1706		SEVEN STARS
	1714	1768	COACH AND HORSES, OLD COACH AND HORSES
	1778	1781	HALF MOON AND SEVEN STARS
	1781	1924	COACH AND HORSES
The pub is highlighted, two doors to the right of Whitefriars' Gate in Much Park Street, pictured here for the Godiva Procession of 1907. To the left of the old gatehouse is the Rose Inn. Wilson states that the Black Bear Inn on Much Park Street was subsequently the COACH AND HORSES, then the HALF MOON AND SEVEN STARS, before reverting to the COACH AND HORSES. Mike Underwood of Leyland, Lancashire, has sent me a copy of a page of his family bible, where it states that in 1684 Charles Milward, the licensee of the Black Bare in Much park Street, was sent this bible by Quartermaster Frances Lane of London.
LICENSEES: 1684 Charles Milward 1706 Thomas Roberts senior ? John Hodgetss ? Elizabeth Ratliff
Street plan of 1851
Google map location (Due to the scaling on old maps, the pin location might not be 100% accurate.)