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The Reindeer was situated on Main Street. The Reindeer beerhouse is well documented, with landlord John Raven serving for at least forty years. A Thomas Riley is mentioned as landlord in an 1862 advertisement, adding some uncertainty. After Raven’s death, his wife continued running The Reindeer un til 1884. It may have survived a little longer, but the opening of the Jubilee in 1887 likely marked its end, as it no longer appears in the 1891 census. In 1882, the Leicester Chronicle (Saturday 29th July 1882) published an advertisement of a Beerhouse for Sale in Newbold Verdon. For many years in the occupation of the late John Raven, with three cottages adjoining in the occupation of Mrs Abell, Mrs Beck and Mrs Goadby. There are large gardens at the back, and a croft of 11⁄4 acres or thereabouts. However, as The Jubilee Inn opened up in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Year, the death knell was signed for the Reindeer alehouse next door. The Reindeer beerhouse, which stood where The Strand hairdressers is situated today, shared what was known as Abell’s Row (which retained that name until the 1960s when it was knocked down to make way for the shops and flats there today).
Source: Newbold Verdon Parish Archive
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