Dyers Arms, 152 Spon Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:FROMTONAME
1759?THREE JOLLY DYERS, JOLLY DYERS
18201917DYERS ARMS
The dyers conducted their trade in Spon End, using water from the River Sherbourne, which enters the city here from the west. Here they dyed 'Coventry Blue' cloth. This pub at 152 Spon Street is not to be confused with the Old Dyers Arms at 4 Spon End. In 1850 it was used for an inquest into a suicide an in 1917 it closed and became a shop.

LICENSEES:

1820 Thomas Dalton, silk dyer 1822 - 1825 James Cook 1841 Joseph Beech 1845 - 1851 Edward Walmsley 1853 Thomas Curson 1853 John Bayliss 1861 - 1871 Thomas North 1874 J. Jelly 1879 - 1881 John Nicklin 1886 A. Nicklin 1890 - 1891 F. North 1893 - 1909 Thomas Essex 1911 - 1912 Frederick Grazier 1912 - 1913 James Guise
Dyers Arms
Street plan of 1851
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