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 theBlack Horse Inn, the Tidd's
later kept the
Bowl
Turner's Arms
on Belgrave Gate before a spell running the Woolcomber's Armsin
Leicester's Royal East Street.