Green Dragon, 21 Spon Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| c1779 | 1866 | GREEN DRAGON | |
| 1984 | ? | 1450 | |
| 2011 | c2016 | BLUE BISTRO | |
| 2017 | 2019 | TRUTH & ALIBI | |
| 2020 | present | GREEN DRAGON | |
This photograph was taken when the premises had become a bar aptly-named "1450" - the rear is probably circa 1450, the front likely to be 1500.
The building now in Spon Street was formerly the Green Dragon in Much Park Street, which ceased being an public house in 1866 and in 1867 was converted into tenements.
Between 1982 and 1984 the Green Dragon was dismantled and re-erected in Spon Street as part of the Spon Street Townscape Scheme. The carriageway arch of 124 Much Park Street was also re-erected as it is the only surviving part of the building that was destroyed in the war.
Mr. F. W. B. Charles, the consultant for the Spon Street Scheme, thought that the Green Dragon should be restored to its proper use by making it an extension of the Old Windmill. Sadly this idea wasn't adopted. Instead, since re-erection, the building became the 1450 bar and, from 2011, the Blue Bar.
In 2017 it reopened as Truth & Alibi and became a music venue, but closed in 2019. As of February 2020 it is due to reopen as the Green Dragon once again.This sign comes from the coat of arms of the Earls of Pembroke, although the dragon in the George and Dragon stories is usually green. | |||
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