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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Pickering's Vaults, 31A High Street

High Street looking east, early 1900s. Previously in Hertford Street, in October 1860 P. J. Pickering advertised that he was a "Licensed Dealer in Wines, and General Commission Agent" in High Street. His premises, No. 31A, appear to have been shared with Smyth's Tailors, No. 31B - on the right in the photograph above. The business continued until the 1920s and then the building was used as a Sketchley Dry Cleaners Receiving Office.

LICENSEES: 1860 - 1890 Philip James Pickering, Wine and Spirit merchant 1886 Matt Blythe, manager 1889 - 1890 A. W. Hitchin, manager 1911 - 1913 William Stevens 1919 - 1927 M. E. Downton

Street plan of 1851