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

Drinking in an Old English Town

White Rose, 19-20 Market Place

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1864	1872	Market Hall Tavern
	1864	1872	Market House Tavern
	1864	1872	Market Tavern
	1872	1929	White Rose
A postcard featuring the old Market Tower is a rare view of Market Place, which led through from where Broadgate and Cross Cheaping met to the tower, where you could turn left and take Market Street back to Smithford Street. If we are interpreting a map correctly, The Market Tavern / White Rose is on the left and The Lamp Tavern is on the corner of Market Street to the left in the distance where we would find the Arcade Vaults at No.6 and the Market Vaults at No.22. Wilson records this pub as possibly being the Pack Horse, West Orchard, and then the MARKET HALL TAVERN / MARKET HOUSE TAVERN in 1864, when a new license was granted to Isaac Brown who later in 1869, transferred it to R.P. Barber. However, the Pack Horse has now been found to have closed in 1841, after which it became a shop. The sign must have then become THE WHITE ROSE and C&B records this in 1874, Licensee Henry Sanders. In 1929 the license was surrendered for the rebuilding of the CASTLE VAULTS, Market Place. It closed on 30th September, 1929. This was the badge of the Duke of York (1411-1460) and hence of the House of York.
LICENSEES: 1874 - 1894 Henry Sanders 1894 - 1896 William Jephcott 1903 - 1913 Mrs. Emily Green 1919 - 1927 Herbert A. Beaumont
Street plan of 1851