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

Drinking in an Old English Town

Rutland Arms, 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
Previously the BULL AND ANCHOR (also variously called the Bulls Head and Anchor, or simply the Anchor), the RUTLAND ARMS is mentioned many times in newspaper advertisements, but only for the short period between 1858 and 1860, the earliest found being on the 7th July 1858 with B. G. Holton hoping that the public would patronise his Chop and Steak House. In 1859 the largest pig in England was proudly exhibited there. With the transfer of license to George Burnett in 1860 the name appears to have reverted to the BULL AND ANCHOR, and soon after that became known as the OLD BULL AND ANCHOR.
LICENSEES: 1858 - 1860 B. G. Holton 1860 - 1862 George Burnett (reverted the name to the Bull and Anchor in 1860)
Street plan of 1851