Railway Refreshment Rooms, Warwick Road
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1864 | 1944 | RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS | |
| 1879 | 1964 | RAILWAY HOTEL | |
| 1964 | 2014 | ROCKET | |
 What might be the only copy of this photo in existence, and possibly the earliest ever view of the Railway
These were the refreshment rooms built by the Midland Railway for Coventry Station.
By 1879 it had become known as the RAILWAY HOTEL, although the name RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS was still being used as late as 1944 in local newspapers.
In October 1880 Mary Joy Hicks, who had co-run the premises with her husband, Berkeley, since opening in 1864, applied for a license for an as yet unbuilt premises on the newly built (but still unnamed) Eaton Road, in order that railway users did not have quite so far to walk. It would only have saved people approximately 65 yards, and thus the committee rejected the application, albeit not unanimously.Refreshment Rooms and the goods yard from around 1860, and the Bull Fields which pre-date the railway. | |||
LICENSEES:1864 - 1877 Berkeley William Hicks (died Jun 1877) 1877 - 1881 Mary Joy Hicks (widow of Berkeley) 1886 - 1891 C. Sumner 1893 - 1896 T. Sumner 1903 - 1909 A. W. Edge 1911 - 1913 A. Judge 1919 - 1934 George Samuel Johnson 1937 - 1940 Mrs. G. S. Johnson | |||
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