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Jolly Weavers, 16 Silver Street

Alternative Addresses:Cook Street
Photo Bishop Street looking south. Silver Street is on the left In 1756 four soldiers were billeted here. Then in 1779 there was a quarrel in the pub that resulted in a murder. In 1853 it was sold by H. Downes to J. Rigg of Castle Farm, Fillongley for £160. In the early 1930s the Jolly Weavers began to be extensively by members of the Coventry Repertory Company, and so it gained the nickname of the "Actors' Pub" as it became a "brief respite from the ardours of their acting at the Opera House" according to a 1938 article in the Midland Daily Telegraph. The pub closed on the 19th July 1938.

The Worshipful Company of Weavers (1155) has the longest history of any city guild. Weaving played a vital part in Coventry's economy from the Middle Ages.

LICENSEES:

1790 Robert Mill 1799 William Clarke 1800 James Cheslin 1822 - 1823 T. Yates 1828 - 1841 John Palmer 1845 - 1855 Benjamin Kingdom 1855 William Lee 1868 - 1874 Amos & M. E. (Elizabeth) Lee 1879 - 1881 Thomas Sidwell 1886 Thomas Taylor 1890 - 1891 M. Benson 1893 - 1896 R. Allen 1903 - 1913 T. S. Yardley 1919 - 1922 E. Weatherley 1924 - 1938 F. M. Hill
Jolly Weavers
Street plan of 1851
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