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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Old Rose and Crown, 3 Burges

Alternative Addresses:	St Johns Bridge, Cross Cheaping
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
			Rose
	1772	?	Old Rose and Crown
	1822	1865	Rose and Crown
	1865	1929	Crystal Palace
This sign indicates loyalty to the monarch and to England and has done so since the early seventeenth century. In 1772 the Old Rose and Crown in Bishop Street is to let. Nat Alcock in Coventry Streets states that the ROSE was later the OLD ROSE AND CROWN and then In 1868 it became the CRYSTAL PALACE INN.
LICENSEES: 1822 - 1823 T. Bant 1828 - 1829 William Clarke 1835 - 1841 Martha Clarke 1845 J. Ward 1850 - 1851 Mary Rogers 1861 Charles Ivins 1868 - 1874 Joseph Cattell 1879 - 1881 James Ellis Patterson 1886 J. Sudden 1890 - 1891 G. Kenning 1893 J. Edwards 1894 H. Liddington 1896 William Cotton 1903 - 1905 J. H. E. Brown 1909 - 1913 Mrs. Elizabeth Brown 1919 - 1929 Walter Jones
Street plan of 1851