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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Buck and Crown, 219-221 Radford Road

Alternative Addresses:	43 - 47 Radford Road
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
			Buck and Crown
			Buck and Bull
A heraldic name. This pub stood alongside a row of cottages with top shops on a raised bank opposite the later Radford Hotel. It is first mentioned on 28th Novenber 1768 when articles lost between the Buck and Crown and Coventry are advertised in the Coventry Mercury. In 1801 the pub was up for let. In March 1927 Reginald John Porter applied to have the license of the BUCK AND CROWN removed, to be transferred to premises proposed to be built "within the curtilage of Radford House, Radford, and intended to be known as the Radford Hotel." (MDT, 9th March 1927.)
LICENSEES: 1845 - 1850 Samuel Russell 1851 Thomas Russell 1861 George Addison 1879 John Smith 1893 - 1894 W. F. Walker 1903 - 1905 Arthur Elliott 1909 - 1922 Elijah Brown 1924 W. G. Woodward 1926 - 1927 F. B. Crouch 1929 Reginald John Porter