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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Shepherd and Shepherdess, Keresley Road, Keresley

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1790	1892	SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS
	1893	2009	OLD SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS
	2009	present	OLD SHEPHERD
On the evening of 8th April 1790 the landlord was laid in bed and his niece was in charge of tending him and running the pub, three boisterous men came in. They were Anthony Fanshaw, Thomas Phillips and Matthew Archer, who proceeded to rob the inn. They were later hanged for the offence. From 1893 the landlord, James Tredell, appears to have changed the pub's name from the Shepherd and Shepherdess to the OLD Shepherd and Shepherdess.
LICENSEES: 1832 - 1850 Thomas Hyde 1850 Catherine Hyde (widow) 1854 John Wilson 1854 - 1855 John Smallwood 1855 Michael Tookey (temporary) 1855 - 1858 John Smallwood (died) 1892 James Tredell