No. 35: Former Coach & Horses pub
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No. 35 Broad Street was the pub on the corner of Parks Road, at the east end of the row of thirteen houses dating from the first half of the seventeenth century that were that were demolished to make way for the New Bodleian Library in the late 1930s.
This pub had three different names:
- In 1587 John Carter, described as a "joyner in Canditch" took out a licence to hang up a sign here with the name of the Prince’s Arms (twenty years before the King’s Arms opened on the opposite corner)
- on 14 February 1723/4 Thomas Cale, a victualler of St Mary Magdalen, took out a licence for the new name of the Dog & Partridge. In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. The Dog & Partridge was then in the occupation of a Mr Davis, and its frontage measured 5 yards 2 feet 9 inches. In 1841 the publican was John Ryman, while the 1851 census shows Richard Cozens living at the pub with his wife, three small children, a lodger, and one servant.
- The pub was reconstructed in October 1881, and Elizabeth Gilbert moved in. She had been landlady of the Coach & Horses in Holywell Street, and brought the sign with her and gave the name to this pub instead.
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Landlords of 35 Broad Street listed in directories |
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Dog & Partridge |
Coach & Horses |
Demolished with twelve neighbouring
houses in 1937 |
See the bound typescript in the Bodleian Library entitled "The Demolished Houses of Broad Street and the Freeborn Family" (1943), attributed to Emily Sarah Freeborn, and the webpage by Alan Simpson which reproduces some of the material in it.