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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Royal Vaults, 60 Cross Cheaping

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1836	1843	WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS
	1843	1880	LIQUOR VAULTS / LIQUOR SHOP
	1880	1896	BOARD
	1896	1911	ROYAL HOTEL
	1911	1936	ROYAL VAULTS
This pub stood on Cross Cheaping, facing Broadgate, by the entrance through to Butcher Row. For the previous 15 years this had been known as the Royal Hotel, run from 1996 by W. F. Lane (whose name was famously emblazoned on the side of the pub), and from 1900, his widow, Emily. The name Royal Vaults started being used for these premises in 1911 after Frederick Henry Wells Moore had taken over the tenancy from Emily Lane, and this name continued until the very end, even though license transfers and newspapers still occasionally referred to the pub as "The Board". This end of Cross Cheaping, down as far as Board Vaults on the corner of Ironmonger Row, was demolished for the building of Trinity Street. The Royal Vaults closed its doors for the final time on Monday 11th May 1936.
LICENSEES: 1911 - 1915 Frederick Henry Wells Moore 1915 - 1919 William Thomas Peakman 1919 Hubert O'Sullivan (Feb to Nov) 1919 - 1924 Thomas Varley 1924 - 1929 Fred Dingley 1931 Horace Elliott King 1931 - 1936 William Victor Castle
Street plan of 1851