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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Old Shepherd and Shepherdess, Keresley Road, Keresley

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1790	1892	Shepherd and Shepherdess
	1893	2009	Old Shepherd and Shepherdess
	2009		Old Shepherd
From 1893 the landlord, James Tredell, appears to have prefixed the pub's name SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS with 'OLD'. In 1936 a new pub was built behind the old one. The old pub was demolished but the cellars of the old pub still remain under the car park of the new one. The new pub boasted that it was the only one in Coventry with revolving doors to the 'vaults'. When the new inn was built just before the old one closed a reporter from the Midland Daily Telegraph visited and spoke to Daniel Osborne, an 82 year old who had spent his entire life in the village. He recalled the old days: 'Fine place that but it'll never see the sights we saw here. This used to be a big calling place for the farmers. All the horses were tied up outside and when the farmers had a pint or two we saw some fun!' The name was simplified in 2009 to the OLD SHEPHERD.
LICENSEES: 1893 James Tredell