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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Roebuck, 68 Little Park Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
			WHITE ROSE
	1477	1756	ROEBUCK
	1756	1760	HIND
	1776	1793	GOLDEN HART
	1793	1860	ROEBUCK
This pub was said to be the meeting house of the Lancastrians in the time of Henry IV during the War of the Roses. It is thought to date back to at least c1447. In Mary Dormer Harris's 'Life in an Old English Town' this is one of the famous old inns of Coventry although she says that it was formerly the WHITE ROSE, of later years THE ROEBUCK in Little Park Street. The name White Rose hardly fits with its being a Lancastrian meeting place. Although declared bankrupt in April 1860, Humphrey Payne was still living at these premises in the 1861 census and described as a publican & watch maker. The roebuck is the male of the roe deer, the small species of spotted deer in England.
LICENSEES: 1833 - 1839 William Randle 1839 - 1846 William Oakes 1848 S. Pratt 1848 - 1849 Charles Wall 1849 - 1857 William Smith 1857 - 1859 Thomas Wright 1859 - 1860 Humphrey Payne
Street plan of 1851