Red Lion, Street not known, Styvechale
| In 1753 the Coventry Journeyman Silk Weavers met at the Red Lion to take steps to suppress persons practising weaving who had not been apprenticed. The most common of all pub names. Its early use was due to John of Gaunt, the most powerful man in England for much of the fourteenth century. A red lion is also a heraldic reference to Scotland. When James I (also James VI of Scotland) came to the throne, he ordered that a red lion should be displayed in public places. |