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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Buck and Crown, 219-221 Radford Road

Alternative Addresses:	43 - 47 Radford Road
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1768		Buck and Bull
	pre1801	1927	Buck and Crown
A heraldic name. This pub stood alongside a row of cottages with top shops on a raised bank opposite the later Radford Hotel. The earliest mention we can find to these premises is on 28th November 1768 when "Twenty Bags or Sacks" were reported as lost "between the Buck and Ball in Radford and Coventry". Should that have been the Buck and Bull? In 1801 the Buck and Crown was up for let when Daniel King left the public business. In March 1927 Reginald John Porter applied to have the license of the BUCK AND CROWN removed, to be transferred to premises proposed to be built "within the curtilage of Radford House, Radford, and intended to be known as the Radford Hotel." (MDT, 9th March 1927.) This was confirmed the following month.
LICENSEES: to 1801 Daniel King 1824 - 1835 Thomas Harris (died 2nd Jan 1835) 1839 Thomas Sheffield 1839 William Sheffield 1843 - 1859 Samuel Russell 1861 - 1864 George Addison 1864 Richard Yardley 1867 James Makepeace 1869 John Joseph Parker 1879 Walker 1879 John Smith 1888 - 1891 William James Walker 1891 - 1898 William Moore Walker 1898 - 1901 Henry Walker (died 30th Jan 1901) 1901 - 1903 Ellen Walker 1903 - 1905 Arthur Elliott 1905 - 1922 Elijah Brown 1924 W. G. Woodward 1926 Fred Bruce Crouch 1926 - 1927 Reginald John Porter