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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Pannier, Cross Cheaping

Panniers were large baskets used for carrying foods such as bread, fish and fruit. The word comes from the Latin panarium, a bead basket. Later they were specifically the baskets on either side of a saddle on a pack horse. In 1474 the four year old Prince of Wales was presented with a gilt cup, £100 and 100 marks at an address given to him outside the PANYER public house, Cross Cheaping.