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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Golden Eagle, 178 Foleshill Road

Alternative Addresses:	Eagle Street
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
			GOLDEN EAGLE HOTEL
In April 1903 the license of the Fox Inn, Cook Street, was transferred to the newly established Golden Eagle, Foleshill Road. The pub may have been named from Eagle Street, the corner on which it stood, which had been built 14 years earlier. In 1909 this pub was purchased by Phillips and Marriott. Between 1931 and 1938 it advertised "Bass's noted Burton ales, Guinness stouts, choice wines and spirits". After WW2 air-raid damage reduced the pub to a single storey, it was rebuilt in five and a half months in 1958, costing £16,000 and reopening in December that year. In 1982 it was called 'a busy local with a popular landlord' but by 2011 it had closed and become a medical centre.
LICENSEES: 1903 David Gamble 1903 William Smith 1904 Freserick John Hibbell 1905 - 1913 Edwin Ashby 1919 - 1940 Albert James Nicks 1952 - 1960 William McCleary (see also Rose and Crown, Hall Green 1960 onwards)