Black Dog, 10 Cook Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1845 | 1854 | Black Dog | |
| 1856 | 1868 | Prince of Wales | |
August 1845 saw Thomas Poultney receiving a full victuallers' license for the Black Dog.
In May 1854 it was the site of very dramatic events. Nelson Webb, aged 22 years, and his wife Eliza, aged 25, had both, until shortly before the event, occupied the Black Dog. However, Nelson was aware that Eliza had married him bigamously, already having a husband in America. Webb's business affairs were not going well either, so he left the Black Dog, and the license previously in his hands was transferred to a relative of his wife called Thompson. Webb's existence was unsettled but his wife remained at the pub. One day in April, Nelson Webb entered the Black Dog and asked his wife for a glass of ale. She refused him, upon which he drew a pistol and shot her dead. A short while later he shot himself.
By 1856 it had become the PRINCE OF WALES.
 Cook Street 1910. The 'Black Dog of Arden' was Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in the early fourteenth century. He was one of those who plotted to kill Pier Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, in 1312. There is also a Black Dog in Southam. | |||
LICENSEES:to c1728 James Powney 1845 - 1847 Thomas Poultney (new victuallers' license) 1847 - 1849 James Powney 1849 William Campton 1849 - 1851 Edward Watson 1851 - 1852 William Eades 1852 - 1853 James Butcher 1853 - 1854 Nelson Webb 1854 Mrs. Thompson | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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