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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Parrot and Griffin, 122 Gosford Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1720	?	PARROT AND GRIFFIN
	1772	1851	GRIFFIN
	1868	c2003	SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, CAMPBELL
	c2003	present	PHOENIX
In a marriage settlement of June 1720 Joseph Ash, Coventry beer brewer, settles this pub on his son, Joseph Ash junior, and Bridgett Sturgess. The name was then the PARROT AND GRIFFIN. By 1773 when an auction was held on the premises (JCM 15th February 1773), it was referred to as the GRIFFIN. It is mentioned again as the GRIFFIN in a mortgage document dated 1789 and that name remained until 1868 when the name changed to the SIR COLIN CAMPBELL after the 1st Baron of Clyde (1792-1863).
Street plan of 1851