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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Cricketers Arms, 145 Far Gosford Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1862	1872	ROYAL BRITISH SAILOR / ROYAL SAILOR / BRITISH SAILOR
	1872	1927	CRICKETERS ARMS
The building in 1988-89 as Plastows Fish, Game & Poultry. This pub, previously the Royal British Sailor, was next door to All Saints School, and named after our national summer game. Cricket was being played around this era at Gosford Green. The first mention comes in 1872 when the Coventry Standard reports a coat being stolen, the thief ending up selling the coat in the Cricketers' Arms. As early as February 1908 the licence for this pub was under consideration after being named as one of six pubs whose licenses were objected to by the Chief Constable due to a sharp increase in drunkenness in the city. In March 1925 the pub was declared redundant, and agreeing £7,418 compensation in October 1926 the pub finally closed the following year.
LICENSEES: 1872 - 1874 Arthur Friswell 1874 - 1881 Richard W. Lord 1886 - 1889 Samuel Dunlop Adams 1889 - 1894 William Ward 1896 - 1905 Joseph William Stokes 1905 Samuel Millward 1905 - 1906 William Henry Revill 1906 - 1908 Samuel Bradbury 1908 - 1909 Thomas Gandy 1909 Richard Albert Nelson 1909 - 1925 Harry Padbury 1925 - 1927 Harry Padbury junior