Charles and Hannah Tidd were running this pub in the early years of the 20th century. Charles Tidd was born close to the Rutland border at Knossington in 1851. He grew up on the farm worked by his parents Thomas and Mary. He married Belgrave-born Hannah Gamble in 1872 and by 1881 the couple had moved to the Black Horse Inn on Checketts Road, Belgrave. The daughter of a framework knitter, Hannah Gamble had herself found employment as a machinist though in her teenage years she worked as a domestic servant for the baker Daniel Cox. After their time at the Black Horse Inn, the Tidd's later kept the Bowl Turner's Arms on Belgrave Gate before a spell running the Woolcomber's Arms in Leicester's Royal East Street.