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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Bull and Anchor, 37 Bishop Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1748		Crown and Anchor
	1766	1777	Anchor
	1774	1858	Bull and Anchor
	1774	1858	Bulls Head and Anchor
	1858	1860	Rutland Arms
	1860	1869	Bull and Anchor
	1869	1896	Olde Bull and Anchor
	1896	1931	Bull and Anchor
This pub was established by 1748 as the CROWN AND ANCHOR. From around 1766 it started to be known simply by the Sign of the ANCHOR, and from 1774 became variously known as the BULL's HEAD AND ANCHOR or just BULL AND ANCHOR. It is marked on the 1851 Board of Health map as the BULL'S HEAD AND ANCHOR. When B. G. Holton took possession of the pub in 1858 he renamed it the RUTLAND ARMS - a name only lasting two years before reverting to the BULL AND ANCHOR. By 1869 the Bull and Anchor began to be known as the OLDE BULL AND ANCHOR, but this stops being used after 1896, reverting the simply BULL AND ANCHOR, which it continued as until the pub was declared redundant in February 1931. An auction on Tuesday 8th March 1932 realised £1,000 for the pub, which was described as having vacant possession and suitable for conversion to a shop or club.
LICENSEES: 1767 - 1794 John Hopkins 1800 - 1803 Thomas Bant 1816 John Chilwell 1822 - 1829 George Whiting 1832 John Carpenter 1835 George Gent 1836 - 1842 Thomas Cooper 1842 John Johnson 1845 - 1848 Thomas Cooper 1848 - 1851 Thomas Townsend 1860 - 1862 George Burnett 1868 Henry Eaves 1869 William Smith (Apr to Sep) 1869 - 1872 Abraham Lucas 1868 - 1869 Charles Conway 1869 William Smith (Apr to Sep) 1869 - 1871 Abraham Lucas 1874 John Hill 1879 Alfred John Harrison 1881 Henry Coles 1886 - 1893 J. Evans 1894 Selina Evans 1895 - 1896 John Booth 1897 Will Ratliff 1903 Thomas Reader 1903 Joseph McCarthy 1905 - 1919 James Lissaman 1921 - 1922 A. Cooper 1924 Percy Wyatt (proprietor - late of Kenilworth Castle Inn, Hertford Street 1919 - 1922) 1925 - 1928 Harry Dumbleton 1928 - 1930 Florence Dumbleton 1930 - 1931 William Winterburn
Street plan of 1851