Green Man, Hall Green Road, Foleshill
| Alternative Addresses: | Bell Green | ||
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1793 | 1904 | GREEN MAN | |
| 1904 | 1924 | BEERHOUSE, Hall Green | |
| 1924 | c2010 | GREEN MAN | |
| c2010 | 2010 | WINDMILL | |
Our earliest reference is 1793 when the pub was used for auctions. From 1845 to 1924 this was also the BEERHOUSE, Hall Green, although it is still showing as a beer house on the map of Warwickshire 1936-38. Not until the map of Leicestershire 1950-59 does it appear as the Green Man.
From 1910 this pub was leased by Phillips and Marriotts from J. Smith of Burrow Hill Farm, Corley. In 1912 they purchased it for £1,475.
At some time in the later 20th century it was called the WINDMILL. It had closed by 2010.
 In modern times the green man is associated with Robin Hood and his men who were supposedly dressed in Lincoln Green Cloth. A cloth called Kendal Green, from its manufacture there, or the lighter Lincoln Green, was used for the clothes of foresters, woodmen and the like from the sixteenth century. A more popular interpretation appears to be a symbol showing the renewal of plant growth each spring. The most common form is a face exuding greenery from its nose, mouth, nostrils and ears. Although it is of heathen origins the figure is commonly found in churches, and the rear door of St John's (Bablake church) in Coventry contains several carved green men. There are others about the city. | |||
LICENSEES:1861 Josiah Harben publican and coal dealer 1879 - 1880 Isaac Smith 1892 Mrs. Maria Benson 1899 John Harper 1900 Thomas Underwood 1901 Henry Woodhouse 1904 - 1924 (see beerhouse below) 1907? - 1940 William Walden (junior) 1955 - 1962 George Pearson (1960 with A. E. Whitaker) | |||
OWNERS:to 1912 J. Smith from 1912 Phillips and Marriott | |||
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