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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Livery Stables, 39 New Street

Alternative Addresses:	23 Cox Street
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1779	?	Horse and Jockey
	1782	1962	Livery Stables
It is first recorded as the Livery Stables pub in 1782. In 1824 the pub belonged to the Free Grammar School and later the Livery Stables Inn public house and three other houses were leased for 21 years to Mr. Welton for £20 per annum. This lease expired in 1873. This was a home brew pub until 1920. The pub closed in 1962. A livery stables hired out horses. 'Livery' refers to the food and drink which a horse is given in order to live.
LICENSEES: 1822 - 1823 D. Arnold 1828 - 1843 George Tandy (moved to the Wheel Tavern, Leicester Row) 1843 - 1852 Joseph Cramp (moved to the Beehive, Tower Street) 1861 - 1868 Andrew Barton 1868 William Smith 1871 - 1896 Thomas Smith 1903 - 1905 Alice Rose Sadler 1909 - 1919 Thomas Kirby 1921 - 1922 Samuel B. Saunderson 1924 - 1927 George Putman 1929 - 1936 Horace Tasker 1937 - 1938 B. J. Keogh 1939 - 1940 S. J. S. Beardmore
OWNERS: 1824 - 1862 Free Grammar School BREWERS: to 1895 Thomas Smith 1895 - 1902 Mrs. Martha Randle 1902 - 1920 Thomas Kirby (45 Cox Street and Stores at 39 New Street)
Street plan of 1851