{"id":35550,"date":"2016-01-22T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.thearsenalhistory.com\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:36:51","slug":"arsenal-publicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thearsenalcollection.org.uk\/?p=35550","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Publicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

List of Arsenal Players as Publicans<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the summer Chris Jack, the Grandson of 1930’s exceptional player David Bone Nightingale Jack,\u00a0got in touch\u00a0with\u00a0information about how DBN had run a pub after he retired from the game. So in mid October we met up with him at the very same pub, just up from the Angel tube station for a convivial chat.<\/p>\n

This has since evolved into an attempt to list as many of the Arsenal players who took this, until recent times, favoured post-playing route.<\/p>\n

\"Frank
Frank McLintock at the Sutton Arms<\/a>: Harp Stays Sharp to the Bottom of the Glass!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

To that end here is the list. We know it is not complete – One of Donald Rumsfeld’s “known unknowns” – and would really appreciate if you could get in touch with us to add your\u00a0information to the knowledge base, especially those of the players for whom we cannot find the names of certain pubs. Or if you know of other players who ran a pub please inform us so we can add their name to the list<\/p>\n

Additions to our original list kindly sent in are added in this colour.<\/span><\/p>\n

The list is split into North London and the rest, to make an\u00a0“ex-Arsenal player’s pubs”\u00a0pub crawl easier to organise after a game!<\/p>\n

North London<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

David Jack – Camden Head, 2 Camden Walk, London, N1 8DY- 1952-55<\/p>\n

\"Camden
Camden Head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leslie Compton – Hanley Arms 440 Hornsey Road, Islington – 1950s. Very sadly no longer functions as\u00a0a pub. Though\u00a0the Prince of Wales,\u00a053 Highgate High Street, London N6 5JX\u00a0 which he later ran from 1962 onwards\u00a0is still a going concern.<\/p>\n

\"Leslie
Leslie Compton serves Tom Whittaker a pint at the Hanley Arms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vic Groves – Angel Tavern, 181 Fore Street,\u00a0Edmonton N18 – 1966 to 1972. Since then it\u00a0was demolished to widen the North Circular Road.\u00a0Later he moved to The\u00a0Crown and Horseshoes, 12-15 Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 6PZ<\/p>\n

Frank McLintock – Sutton Arms, 193 Caledonian Road, Islington, N1. No longer a pub and now called the Marathon Restaurant<\/p>\n

Lionel Smith – The Shakespeare, 57 Allen Rd, Stoke Newington, London N16 8RY – ran with his wife until 1980. It is still a pub<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Storey – Jolly Farmers, 113 Southgate Road, Islington, N1 3JS\u00a0 now called the\u00a0De Beauvoir Arms. He opened it in 1975 and it was here that the Gold Sovereign “conspiracy” bust in 1978 occurred for which\u00a0Peter got a 3 year sentence at the Old Bailey 1980. This and other interesting football and non football misdemeanours can be found in\u00a0his autobiography:\u00a0True Storey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eddie Kelly – The Spanish Patriots, 14 White Conduit Street, off Chapel Street market. Now demolished and replaced with\u00a0a Sainsbury’s car park.<\/p>\n

The Rest<\/span><\/h3>\n

George Armstrong – The Red Lion in Rothley, Leicester mid 1980s. Showaddywaddy were regulars: including\u00a0their singer Dave Bartram and bass guitarist Trevor Oakes! Many thanks to Jill Armstrong <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Baker – The Central Bar\u00a0in Craigneuk, North Lanarkshire in the 1970s. Many thanks to Andrew Nicoll<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Geoff Barnett – Waggon and Horses, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire from 1976 & George & Dragon, Middlewich Road,\u00a0Holmes Chapel,\u00a0Cheshire,\u00a0CW4 7EA.<\/p>\n

Cliff Bastin – Horse and Groom, 52 Fore Street,\u00a0Exeter, Devon EX1 2QL. 1956. Now called the Heavitree.<\/p>\n

William “Billy” Bannister – Grimshaw Arms, Temple Street, Burnley & a number of Leicester hostelries.<\/p>\n

Warwick Bean – The Castle, Millers Lane, Outwood, Surrey RH1 5QB. Many thanks to Tom Rowan<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Bradshaw – Oak and Acorn Inn, Taunton\u00a01926-30\u00a0and Cross Keys Inn, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset in 1930s<\/p>\n

Billy Blyth – pub in Port Seton, Scotland.<\/p>\n

Tommy Briercliffe – Infirmary Hotel and Waterloo Hotel, both in Blackburn – from 1907- to at least 1926.<\/p>\n

Horace Cope – Lord Alcester, 100 Pym Street, Nottingham in 1950s to 1961<\/p>\n

Archie Cross – One Bell Hotel, High Street\/Lowfield Street Junction, Dartford – 1 November 1909 onwards.<\/p>\n

Ray Daniel – pub in Swansea.<\/p>\n

Charlie George –\u00a0pub in\u00a0New Milton, Hampshire<\/p>\n

Mal Griffiths – Queen’s Head, Bull Head Street, Wigston, Leicester 1958-1969<\/p>\n

Charles Boyd Hare – The Bell Hotel, Liskeard, Cornwall circa\u00a01910<\/p>\n

Richard Horsington – Fountain Pub, 132 Plumstead Road, Plumstead,\u00a0pre WW1. He also ran the Weaver Mineral Water company based in Plumstead after buying it when\u00a0founder GP Weaver died. GP Weaver was also landlord of the Invicta Ground that Royal Arsenal played on between 1890-1893.<\/p>\n

Arthur Hutchins – pub in Peckham.<\/p>\n

Caesar Jenkyns – George Inn, Holyhead Road, Moxley, Wednesbury, the Black Country.\u00a0Circa 1905.<\/p>\n

Tommy Lawton –\u00a0 The Magna Carta, Southwell Rd, Lowdham, Nottingham,\u00a0NG14 7DQ. 1958-1962<\/p>\n

\"Tommy
Tommy Lawton at the Magna Carta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reg Lewis – Pub in South London<\/p>\n

Anders Limpar –\u00a0The LimpBar, a sports bar\u00a0at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm. Many thanks to Andy Exley <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jimmy Logie\u00a0 –\u00a0 The Greyhound Pub,\u00a0Kingsbury Road\/Balls Pond Road, Dalston. Late 1950s<\/p>\n

Malcolm Macdonald – Far Post,\u00a037 Wigmore Rd, Worthing, West Sussex, BN14 9HH. SuperMac ran it\u00a0from 1985 to 1987. He\u00a0took it over as\u00a0the\u00a0Wigmore Arms and changed it’s name immediately to\u00a0the Far Post. Demolished in 2005 for flats.<\/p>\n

Hugh MacDonald – Melbourne Arms, 81\u00a0Sandy Hill Road, Plumstead SE18 after WW1. It is less than a mile from where the club began on Plumstead Common.<\/p>\n

Bob McNab\u00a0– pub in Tottenham 1980.<\/p>\n

Peter Marinello – Marinello’s, 140 Leith Walk, <\/span>Edinburgh, <\/span>EH6 5DT<\/span>. 1984 but now defunct.<\/p>\n

Jackie Milne – pub in Carluke, Lanarkshire from 1947 onwards<\/p>\n

Frank Moss – pub in Chorley from\u00a01940s.<\/p>\n

Terry Neill – Terry Neill Sports Bar Brasserie, 53\u00a0Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2FD. Opened in 1993 and still going.\u00a0He also had one in Hendon but is now defunct.<\/p>\n

Isaac Owens – Consett Working Men’s Club in the 1910s.<\/p>\n

Fred Pagnam – pub in Watford in 1920s<\/p>\n

Ray Parlour – Ferry Boat Inn, Ferry Road, \u00a0North Fambridge,\u00a0Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6LR. Recently acquired a part ownership in this ancient pub.<\/p>\n

Bill Paterson – Crown Hotel, Auchterarder, nr Edinburgh from 1946<\/p>\n

Jock Rutherford – The New Inn, Market Square, Biggleswade.\u00a01930s.<\/p>\n

John Radford – The Greyhound,\u00a0Monk Street, Thaxted, Essex.\u00a0Late 1970s, it is\u00a0a grade 2 listed building.<\/p>\n

Archie Roe – pub in Attercliffe, Sheffield from 1925<\/p>\n

Charlie Satterthwaite – pub in Workington<\/p>\n

Tommy Shanks – Victoria Public House, 55 Spring Road, Brightlingsea, Essex in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Geoff Strong – Hesketh Arms,\u00a0 Botanic Road, Southport, PR9 7NA. C<\/span>o-owned\u00a0with\u00a0Liverpool team-mate Ian Callaghan in 1970s<\/p>\n

Alan Sunderland – The Halberd Inn, 15 Northgate Street, Ipswich. Now called McGinty’s.<\/p>\n

Norman Uprichard – Belmont Inn, Harold Road, Hastings<\/p>\n

Ernest Clarke Williamson – Flower in Hand, Pitt Street, Norwich from 1924-27 and then the Mitre Tavern, 131 Earlham Road, Heigham, Norwich 1927-58<\/p>\n

Allan Young – The Old Sergeant, 29 Parsonage Lane, Enfield. Recently demolished in February 2013. Many thanks to<\/span> Chris Hudson <\/a><\/p>\n

Willie Young –\u00a0Bramcote Manor Hotel, nr Nottingham for 19 years.<\/p>\n

\"Willie
We’ve still got the biggest Willie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Off Licences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Len Thompson in 1960s<\/p>\n

Jock Rutherford in Neasden<\/p>\n

Interesting source of photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-2722333\/Golden-Years-Sir-Alf-Ramsey-Dixie-Dean-Bruce-Grobbelaar-Golden-Years-football-pub-special.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013
\nCopies of our books\u00a0Royal Arsenal \u2013 Champions of the South<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Arsenal: The Complete Record 1886-2018<\/a>\u00a0are still available from the publishers.<\/p>\n

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