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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Tuppenny Tube, 16 Spon Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
			TUPPENNY TUBE
		1895	WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS
	1868	1931	BOARD VAULTS
According to a journalist in the Coventry Standard in 1966, the "Tuppenny Tube" was so called because its patrons sat in a long narrow passage, facing one another, as in a tube train.
Street plan of 1851