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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Grapes, 27 Warwick Lane

Alternative Addresses:	Greyfriars Lane, Hertford Street
This pub was thought to be a seventeenth century timbered building. It also said to have been rebuilt timber by timber in the Civil War after being removed from outside the City Walls. In 1935 it was a Flowers house but was destroyed by bombing on 8th April 1941. A temporary wooden structure was used as the pub after the blitz (left), and this closed on 19th October 1959. The license was transferred to the Styvechale Arms on Kenpas Highway. Likely a reference to the availability of wine.
LICENSEES: 1828 - 1829 Samuel Beauchamp 1835 - 1850 Richard Coates 1868 - 1871 Mrs. Elizabeth Butler 1874 - 1885 William Boulton (nephew of Elizabeth Butler) 1885 Thomas Boulton & John Boulton 1885 - 1895 John Edward Keene 1895 - 1896 Sutcliffe ?Hadley (1896 R&G J. E. Keene) 1896 - 1936 George E. Green 1937 - 1938 Mrs. Annie Green 1957 Harold Powell (see also Brewer and Baker, South Street 1957 - 61)
OWNERS: 1878 William Boulton later John Edward Keene later Flowers & Sons, Stratford on Avon
Street plan of 1851