Crown and Anchor, Bishop Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1748 | ? | CROWN & ANCHOR | |
| 1774 | 1859 | BULL & ANCHOR, OLDE BULL & ANCHOR, BULLS HEAD & ANCHOR | |
| 1859 | 1860 | RUTLAND ARMS | |
| 1861 | 1931 | BULLS HEAD & ANCHOR | |
This is the badge of the Lord High Admiral and also the arm-badge of the Royal Navy's petty officers. Retired seamen who became licensees were fond of the name.
This appears on Bradford's survey of Coventry dated 1748-49. This later became the Bull and Anchor Inn. | |||
LICENSEES:1790 William Hopkin 1800 Thomas Bant 1822 - 1829 George Whiting 1835 George Gent 1841 - 1845 Thomas Cooper 1850 - 1851 Thomas Townsend 1861 George Burnett 1868 H. Eaves 1868 Charles Conway 1871 Abraham Lucas 1874 John Hill 1879 Alfred John Harrison 1881 Henry Coles 1886 - 1893 J. Evans 1894 Selina Evans 1896 John Booth 1897 Will Ratliff 1903 Joseph McCarthy 1905 - 1919 James Lissaman 1921 - 1922 A. Cooper 1924 Percy Wyatt (proprietor - late of Kenilworth Castle Inn) 1926 - 1932 H. Dumbleton | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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