Castle Vaults, 18-19 Market Place
| Alternative Addresses: | Market Street, Cross Cheaping, Broadgate | ||
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1881 | 1925 | Castle Vaults | |
| 1881 | 1925 | Hole in the Wall | |
A postcard featuring the old Market Tower gives a rare view of Market Place, which led through from where Broadgate and Cross Cheaping met, to the tower, where you could turn left and take Market Street back to Smithford Street.
This pub had started by 1881 as an outlet for the Castle Hotel, Broadgate, with which it communicated. For reasons currently unknown it acquired the nickname of The Hole in the Wall.
From 1895 it was leased by Phillips and Marriott from Henry and Mary Price. In 1916 they purchased it for £3,500. In 1929 the Castle Vaults was rebuilt, and the White Rose at No. 19 Market Street was demolished, providing a rear entrance to the Castle Vaults. The license of the White Rose was surrendered.
The Vaults was destroyed in the blitz of 1940, and in 1957 its license was transferred to the Market Tavern in Market Way.This has been a common pub name for centuries. It is tempting to connect it with the phrase "an Englishman's home is his castle", a phrase which has been in use since the seventeenth century, but it is more likely to refer to: a. Coventry Castle. b. The castle in Coventry's Coat of Arms. c. A simple visual sign, easy to illustrate, and easy for patrons to recognise. | |||
LICENSEES:1881 Messrs. Phillips and Marriott 1881 - 1893 Edward Benjamin Twycross 1893 - 1899 Walter Farmer 1899 - 1902 Theresa Sarah Morris (husband Alfred died 19th Apr 1902) 1902 - 1904 Theresa Sarah Phipps (married Thomas Phipps of Yardley, 29th Sep 1902) 1904 - 1909 Robert Brown 1909 - 1917 Henry Horne 1917 William Wishlade (died 6th Jul 1917) 1917 - 1922 Alice Maud Mary Wishlade (widow of William) 1922 - ? G. A. Eaton 1933 Thomas Edwin Head 1933 - 1938 Thomas Pointon 1938 - 1940 John Henry (Harry) Ward (see also Foleshiil Old Hall, Crow in the Oak, Foleshill and the Bell, Keresley) | |||
OWNERS:to 1916 Henry & Mary Price from 1916 Phillips & Marriott | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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