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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Clarendon Arms, 42 Bailey Lane

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1794	1843	Jolly Weavers
	1843	1851	Weavers Arms
	1860	1938	Clarendon Arms
This name refers to the various Earls of Clarendon. The first was Edward Hyde (1609 - 1704) whose bequeath to Oxford University founded the Clarendon Press. The pub closed on 6.8.1938.
LICENSEES: 1868 - 1874 William Archer 1879 David Manning 1881 - 1886 Edward Wilday 1890 - 1893 George Budd 1894 - 1896 Mrs. Eliza Purcell 1903 Henry Arrowsmith 1905 Charles Thomas 1909 Ellen Elliott 1911 - 1922 Arthur Wareham 1924 S. Bayliss 1926 - 1927 A. Elton 1929 - 1932 J. W. Arnold 1933 - 1938 H. Bates
Street plan of 1851