Meet the Publican - The Tudor, Leicester

Our chosen Licensee for this issue are actually Licensees. Gail and Glyn Lovell are joint Licensees at The Tudor, 100 Tudor Road, Leicester, Glyn recently acquiring his license is now joint Licensee.

Gail was born to parents John and June Evans in July 1952 in Goomalling, Western Australia. There she attended school, including high school at Wyalkatchem, Western Australia. On leaving school in 1969, she worked for the Australian post service, which she did for 26 years.

During this time, while at a party in 1979, she met Glyn Lovell, with whom she struck up a relationship. Glyn was born in April 1951 in Glenfield to parents Eunice and Raymond Lovell. He attended New Parks Boys School in Leicester, leaving in 1966 to become an apprentice Bricklayer for Davis’s of Nuneaton. After this, two years were spent in the Army after which he moved to Australia in 1970. There he worked as a plasterer and a coach driver for Perth Metropolitan Transport and regularly worked on safari tours. During this time, Gail and Glyn were married at Perth Registry Office.

In 1994, Glyn and Gail set up their own coach company called True Blue Tours. Ten years later, they decided to return to Glyn’s home town and run their own pub. They approached Everards Brewery with interest in taking on a pub and were given the King Richard III on Highcross Street to run on a temporary basis while they awaited their own pub.

After 12 weeks on 5^th August 2004, they took The Tudor as their own pub, restoring it to being a community pub once again. Since then they have been awarded Leicester CAMRA’s Pub Of The Month award last June, as well as a place in The Good Beer Guide.

K Williams.

This page last updated: May 28, 2008

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