Mechanics Arms, 30 Spon Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:FROMTONAME
pre18381850HARROW
18501912MECHANICS ARMS
Spon St flood 30th and 31st Dec 1900 The proximity to local factories probably meant that a lot of the customers were mechanics. Or was the first licensee perhaps a mechanic? The Coventry Standard of 6th September 1850 reports that F. J. Wood moved from the Plough at 9 Spon Street to the Mechanics Arms, taking over the license from Charles Laing, whose pub had previously been called the HARROW. It closed on 7th May 1912.

LICENSEES:

1850 Charles Laing 1850 - 1851 Michael Francis (F. J.) Wood (moved from the Plough, 9 Spon Street, and on to the Harrow, 26 Spon Street) 1851 - 1853 James Barratt 1853 - 1854 Thomas Neale 1854 - 1858 John Hancox 1858 - 1869 John Kelly (moved to the Cross Keys, Earl Street) 1869 - 1870 Richard Yardley 1870 - 1874 Thomas Pearman, watch motioner 1879 - 1881 Frederick Yardley 1886 Richard Hands 1890 - 1905 W. Hewins 1909 - 1912 John A. Webb
Mechanics Arms
Street plan of 1851
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