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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Park Gate Hotel, Parkgate Road, Holbrooks

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	c1745	1895	Park Gate
	1895	2012	Park Gate Hotel
	2012		New Parkgate Hotel
This pub was named after a gate in the Abbott of Coventry's hunting park of Whitmore Park. The earliest mention of this pub is described as Lockhurst Lane, Foleshill, c1745. Parkgate Road was once a coaching route and it still contains a few Georgian cottages along with the hotel. After a serious fire consumed much of the property on Saturday 16th February 1895 the fire the pub was put up for auction and in April Thomas Gossage took over the license from Deborah Broom and turned the pub into a licensed hotel - to henceforth be known as the Park Gate Hotel. Only the kitchen and storerooms to the rear are original. It is remembered in the 1960s as a multi-roomed boozer with sawdust on the floor in the bar. In 1977 the pub swapped from M&B to Courage, later being bought by Manns and becoming an Arden Tavern. In the 1980s it was modernised, the lawn was large and neatly clipped and geese and ducks were kept, quite a delightful place for children. The birds had a particular liking for smoky bacon crisps! In 2012 the name changed to the NEW PARKGATE HOTEL.
LICENSEES: 1895 - 1912 Thomas Gossage (died 26th Aug 1912) 1914 - 1915 Frederick Charles Woolley (Real name Wolmershazer, German 'alien' taken into custody for not registering his true nationality) 1924 John James Robinson 1929 T. Busby 1931 - 1932 H. Madeley 1933 - 1934 T. R. Kibbler 1935 - 1936 O. A. Joyce 1937 - 1940 D. Hodgetts 1979 - 1986 Charley & Ann Platt