Holbrooks Tavern, Lockhurst Lane

These premises have been known by different names during their history:FROMTONAME
18401850HOLBROOKS TAVERN
18501969RAILWAY HOTEL
Railway Lockhurst La 1923 In April 1840 Joseph Hull of the Holbrooks and seven other landlords were "all charged with having their houses open at a later hour than allowed by law, and having drunk and disorderly company therein". From the earliest found mention of this pub in 1840 until it became the Railway Hotel, the names Oldbrook, Old Brook and Holbrook appear to have been interchangeable, and the newspapers of the time would vary as to which version they printed. In 1850 the tavern became the RAILWAY HOTEL when the Coventry to Nuneaton railway line opened.

LICENSEES:

1840 Joseph Hull 1841 - 1843 George Yardley (Also at the Salutation, 1841 to 1844) 1846 - 1847 Thomas Stringer (See also at Beerhouse, Lockhurst Lane in 1841 and at the Rose from 1841 to 1845)
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