Board, 29-30 High Street
These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
1824 | 1991 | WATERS WINE LODGE | |
1901 | ? | COVENTRY AND COUNTRY CLUB | |
1903 | 1913 | BOARD | |
1963 | 1991 | GLASS AND CANDLE BAR | |
As the Coventry and Country Club in 1890. Just to its left is the Craven Arms, later known as the White Bear and the Bear. Board means 'to board intoxicating liquor'. In some instances the need for a premises to have 'a board', that is a sign board, suggested this name, as they did in fact display a blank board. However, generally the board identified a person selling beer from their home; in other words a beer-house under the 1839 Beerhouse Act, the real origin of the 'public house'. | |||
LICENSEES:1903 - 1905 T. A. Hibell 1909 H. Freeman | |||