Tramway Inn, 29 Silver Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1635 | 1883 | TURK'S HEAD | |
| 1883 | c1930 | TRAMWAY INN | |
| c1930 | 1972 | TURK'S HEAD | |
| 1972 | 1980 | CITY CENTRE PUB | |
| 1980 | 1986 | AZTECS | |
| 1980 | ? | TURK'S HEAD | |
| 1986 | c2001 | DIPLOMAT | |
| c2001 | 2003 | PRIDE OF COVENTRY | |
| 2003 | 2014 | DIPLOMAT | |
| 2014 | present | THE ROADHOUSE | |
Next door to the TRAMWAY INN / TURK'S HEAD at No.29 was GARIBALDI'S at No.31 Silver Street.
The tramway system ended in Coventry with the mass destruction of their rails in the blitz of World War II.
In 1900 Phillips and Marriott valued this pub at £1,200. It closed c1930. | |||
LICENSEES:LICENSEES: (the TURKS HEAD) 1822 - 1823 J. Francis 1835 Thomas Elton 1841 Thomas Harrald 1850 - 1860 William King 1862 - 1874 George Yardley 1879 - 1881 John Russell 1929 - 1934 A. V. Harrison 1935 - 1936 W. E Swain 1937 - 1938 A. E. Swain 1939 - 1940 H. G. Shuttleworth 1940 - 1961 onwards William Smith (see also earlier to 1940 at The Leicester Inn, Stoney Stanton Road) 1983 Colin Taggart LICENSEES: (the TRAMWAY INN) 1886 E. Loakes 1890 - 1891 H. French 1893 - 1894 T. Pointer 1896 L. Pointer 1901 - 1909 Helena Scriver 1909 - 1910 Arthur Ward 1911 - 1913 Thomas Castle 1913 - 1919 Charles Moore 1920 - 1927 Mrs Emily Crossley Moore | |||
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