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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Humber Hotel, Humber Road

Alternative Addresses:	Humber Avenue, Folly Lane
This pub was named after the Humber motor company, which began in 1868 when Thomas Humber made his first bicycles. The company switched to cars in 1905 and was later absorbed by the Rootes group, then Chrysler, then Talbot. The pub is quite sizable and was advertised in the Midland Daily Telegraph as opening on Monday the 19th February 1917, at 11.30, and serving Atkinson's Aston Ales, Wines and Spirits, and would open daily 12.45 till 2. It was typically plush and had snob-screens. When the factory was still working pints were lined up at lunchtimes for the thirsty factory workers to swig back.
LICENSEES: 1917 John Nelson Laws 1917 - 1927 John Christopher Gaynor 1927 Thomas Pointer (see also Coombe Abbey Inn, Craven Street, 1931) 1931 - 1934 John Nelson Laws 1934 - 1935 Arthur Maiden 1935 - 1940 Albert Ash 1940 - 1946 Ernest Hall 1946 - 1947 Ernest George Ambrose Weaver 1947 - 1949 Raymond Frank Watts 1955 - 1956 Cecil James Meadows 1956 - 1962 G. R. P. Hammerton 1983 Keith Bennett