Granby Arms, 75 Spon Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1862 | 1871 | WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS | |
| 1871 | 1872 | BOARD | |
| 1874 | 1875 | SPOTTED DOG | |
| 1875 | 1924 | MELBOURNE GARDENS / MELBOURNE HOTEL | |
| 1908 | 1909 | GRANBY ARMS | |
| 1911 | 2002 | BOWLING GREEN | |
| 2002 | 2010 | NEW BOWLER | |
This name was not kept for long. Edwin Herbert Duggan took over as licensee of the Melbourne Gardens in November 1907, and by January 1908 the pub was known as the GRANBY ARMS - a name only used until around August 1909 when the Coventry Herald reported a meeting of the Butts Albions Rugby Football Club at the pub. The brief name change might be connected with the fact that in 1907 the police objected to the renewal of the license for the Melbourne Gardens. The reasons for this objection are not clear, but the license was renewed by the justices anyway, so the the name change was perhaps as a result of the objection.
However, by the time Duggan handed the license over to Jesse Tom Woodward in December 1909, the name MELBOURNE GARDENS was once again being used, and soon after that, the BOWLING GREEN.
John Manners (1721 - 1770), Marquis of Granby, is honoured in a great many pub names because he set up so many of his own men as tavern-keepers when they left the army. He himself was Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards by 1758 and commander-in-chief of the British Army in 1766. So why was this pub named the Granby 140 years later? | |||
LICENSEES:1908 - 1909 Edwin Herbert Duggan | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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Google map location (Due to the scaling on old maps, the pin location might not be 100% accurate.) | |||