Peeping Tom Vaults, 14 Butcher Row

Alternative Addresses:Bull Ring
These premises have been known by different names during their history:FROMTONAME
1704?DOG
1802c1822CHICKEN
c18221841DOG
18351934SPOTTED DOG / YE OLDE SPOTTED DOG
1868PEEPING TOM VAULTS
c1876DEW DROP
Photo During Lady Godiva's ride all of Coventry's inhabitants behaved chivalrously and kept indoors behind closed window, except one - the tailor who peeped at Godiva as she rode past. He was reputedly struck blind and gave rise to the expression 'Peeping Tom'. During refurbishment between 1850 and 1860 the SPOTTED DOG, 14 butcher Row was split into two because by 1868 we find the PEEPING TOM (sometimes referred to as the PEEPING TOM VAULTS) has appeared next door.

LICENSEES:

1868 Joseph March 1871 - 1874 Charles Reuben Sparkes, watch finisher & publican 1874 W. Cooke 1879 Charles Alexander 1881 - 1886 H. Hinton 1890 - 1893 W. J. Piper 1894 H. Bower
Peeping Tom Vaults
Street plan of 1851
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