Railway Hotel, 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
It was built in 1864 as the RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS, later going under any number of combinations of these words and others. In 1879 it was briefly referred to as the Midland Refreshment Rooms, after the Midland Railway Company who'd had it built, but from that year it became known as the RAILWAY HOTEL, although RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS was still being used as late as 1944 in local newspapers.
In April 1964 this was renamed The ROCKET, which at least is a little shorter.Refreshment Rooms and the goods yard from around 1860, and the Bull Fields which pre-date the railway. The coming of the railways in the nineteenth century made a huge impact on life in Britain and this was reflected in pub names. | |||
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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