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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Canteen, Barrack Yard

This was the canteen attached to Coventry barracks. It was used for auctions in 1848 and we read of a number of transfers of the license in the 1860s. Not much else is known of the Canteen and it is said to have closed c1892. It certainly cannot have continued after the closure of the Barracks and its conversion into a market in 1922. Was it open to the public ?

LICENSEES: 1850 - 1851 Joseph Porch 1861 Peter Donaldson 1866 William Eaves 1866 David Smith 1868 T. J. Bruver 1869 Robert Reid 1869 John Walker 1872 John Gays

Street plan of 1851