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The Manvers Arms was situated on Monks Road. This pub opened in 1934 and closed in 2006. It was demolished in 2008 to make way for flats.
This pub was built in 1934 for Mowbray & Co, brewers of Grantham. It took the name, and the licence, of The Manvers Arms in Danesgate, and Mr Harry Green, who had been tenant of The Steamhammer Inn, took the tenancy. It served the residential population of the area and also provided Accommodation for road users. The general manager of the brewery stated in 1934 that the site was passed by many thousands of motorists and tourist who went through Lincoln on their way to coast.
Naomi Field (September 2018)
Billy and Jean Crowder took on the Pub from a guy called Stan who had it for a few years in the 1970’s upto 1982 when we took it on as a Whitbread House, 1984 saw the change in rooms, this is where the ‘lounge & Bar’ were swapped, in the new lounge a ladies toilet was built, the old ‘lounge’ was turned into the ‘bar’ and the wall to the rear of the pub was knocked through to make the pool room. New bars were also built. They left around 1994/5
John Crowder (December 2022)
From Lincolnshire Heritage.
The Manvers Arms was the subject of a programme of building recording, conducted in November 2007, prior to its proposed demolition and redevelopment of the site. The building is a former public house, constructed in 1934 to serve the growing population at the east end of the city, and to provide overnight accommodation for travellers. It was built for Mowbray and Company, brewers of Grantham, and took the name and licence of the Manvers Arms in Danesgate. Its construction of plain brick with decorative brick and tile quoins and a hipped, tiled roof was typical of the period. With the exception of small, coloured glass panels over two of the external doors, the style of the building is functional rather than decorative. Original doors and fittings were present inside, along with the original washbasins to the first-floor rooms. Most of the décor was of the 1970s, however, when alterations were made to remodel the lounge and saloon bars, and convert the snug at the rear to form a pool room. There was a garden at the rear, on a higher terrace, and provision for motor vehicle parking on the forecourt. The building closed as a pub in 2006. {1}{2} The Manvers Arms public house was demolished in April 2008. Archaeological monitoring conducted immediately after the pub's demolition, during groundworks to reduce the terrace, revealed several layers of made ground. The layers were very likely deposited during the creation of the terrace and construction of the pub in 1934. A very small assemblage of redeposited, late post-medieval material was recoverd from the layers (but not retained), along with a single redeposited sherd of Roman pottery
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Other Photos
Date of picture: 2008		Picture source: Naomi Field
Lounge bar 2008, following closure		Picture source: Naomi Field
Saloon 2008, following closure		Picture source: Naomi Field
Date of picture: 2008	Click above photo to expand		Picture source: Naomi Field