Marlbororough Arms (sic)

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 9 Nov 2010

Public house on St John's Street. In the course of erecting a new sign, its name was accidentally misspelled, an extra 'or' being included by a signwriter, but then retained as a novelty. The large red brick building next to the pub is the New Blossoms Hotel, on the corner of Foregate Street, a 19th century building standing on exact the site of hosteleries dating back to the early 15th century. The Marlbororough occupies the site that had previously been the coach house and stables of the Blossoms Hotel. These were destroyed by a fire in the mid nineteenth century and, a few years later, the coach house was replaced by the hostelry that is still there today. http://www.chesterwalls.info/newgate.html

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