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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Peeping Tom, 216 Cromwell Lane, Burton Green

Peeping Tom in the early 1900s with Edmund Cox. In 1896 this pub was leased by Phillips and Marriott for 14 years for £40 per annum from Thomas Hands of Canley and others. It included approximately 6 acres of land in the parishes of Stoneleigh and Berkswell. This lease continued from 1910 to 1914 on a yearly basis until in 1914 the lease was taken on by Southam and Co. On 6th December 1961 the new Peeping Tom, built adjacent, opened, and the old one was demolished. In June 2016 it reopened as Hickory's Smokehouse restaurant. 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'.

LICENSEES: 1884 Ann Green 1900 - 1910 Edmund Cox to 1961 Kenneth Humphries (old pub) and onwards?

OWNERS: 1884 Midland Brewery, Much Park Street, Coventry 1939 Herbert Cowley 1961 Mann, Crossman and Paulin