Designed in 1871 by GH Sheffield it once stood close to a short arm of the Derby Canal. It is named after the wife of the future King Edward VII, son on Queen Victoria. The ground plan of this pub has changed rather more than is immediately obvious. It was built in the 19th Century in a Gothic style with early English pointed arches to the windows. It is now a pub of two halves, with a public bar on the left with a long modern bar counter and the outlines of the snug still evident, a lounge on the right with a much shorter counter. There is a central servery whose off-license hatch survives in the front vestibule. The surprising change is that the lounge used to be upstairs at the front. It was accessed by stairs which ran in the opposite direction to the present ones.
In recent years, the pub has been run by several keen railway enthusiasts and there is a considerable display of railwayana in the public bar which is quite possibly the best pub-based collection of anything this side of Cauldon Low. This includes part of a class 37 locomotive in the car park. Despite when the pub became the birthplace of Derby CAMRA in 1974 it belonged to Shipstone's of Nottingham there is a large, illuminated Home Ales sign in the lounge, produced for Nottingham's other large brewery. Both are now closed. Since then, it has passed from the ownership of Bateman&s of Wainfleet to Castle Rock Brewery, now the largest brewery in Nottingham.
There is no evidence of the former brewhouse on the 1937 map but presumable was inside what was by the then a garage, now the site of the smokers' area, outside at the back of the pub building.

The inn was opened in 1842, intended for the use of railwaymen and second–class passengers. It was originally called "The Brunswick Railway and Commercial Inn". It was the first purpose-built railway inn and served the very first purpose-built railway workers estate anywhere and remained in the ownership of the railways for 105 years.
After a long period of inactivity, the Brunswick re-opened as Derby's first multiple-choice real ale house in 1987, following restoration work undertaken on behalf of the Derby Civic Society and the Derbyshire Historic Trust.
Standing at the apex of the Railway Cottages Triangle. The purpose–built brewery on site is on view. Stone-flagged bar and adjoining lounge, to one side, family parlour in the apex and long function room above stairs. The extra deep two-level cellar results from the site having been raised significantly to accommodate the level of the newly arrived railway (and probably to allow for the fact that the whole area was once a swamp). Like many of the nearby buildings (including the original railway station) it was designed by Francis Thompson and opened along with the Midland, now Hallmark Hotel, in July 1842.
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A purpose-built pub erected around 1816, in Regency style, at about the same time as the rest of the area. The pub took its name from the Earl of Essex whose home, Exeter House, stood nearby. The house was demolished, in 1854.
The charm of a rural pub in the urban sprawl of Derby city centre. Small bar with open fire separated from partitioned lounge by chimneybreast, with wooden-settled snug and old-fashioned range to one side. The lounge has been further extended for extra dining. The adjoining atmospheric cottage, dating from about 1815, has been incorporated into the pub.
Sign: Due to an unfortunate error the sign illustrates the arms of the City of Exeter.
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Built in 1866 as a small hotel and converted to a pub in 1933. The public bar retains its original countertop and a fine bar back, other original Victorian features are present around the building.

The original Flowerpot pub occupied the right hand side building on the corner of King Street and Chapel Street. The entrance on King Street has not changed but the bar has moved from facing King Street on the right as you enter, to the left and facing Chapel Street. The former Central Tyres building next door was taken over and became the stillage bar and gig room.

A survivor of another area which was once well pubbed, a stopping point on the legendary Derby Mile for pub crawlers. Earlier use came from the very wide Friar Gate being in use as a cattle market, pubs being an essential addition to any market. Its most recent refurbishment in a contemporary basic style saw many unsightly, earlier 20th century fittings removed, like the treatment Derby Brewing Company gave to its brewery tap, formerly the Royal Standard.
At the time of the interwar licensing plan the tap room and servery were either side of the front door, with what appear to have been high backed bench seating surrounding the fireplace. The bench seating in the smoke room behind it also surrounded its fireplace. Access to the lavatories was by the yard and there was also access to a club room which was over the rear range of service and living rooms. It appears that was an off sales hatch attached to the exterior of the pub.

One of two pubs in the City Center which are only a fragment of what they once were. The other is The Tiger in Lock-up Yard.
The Jorrocks name is recent and has no historical connection with Derby, but comes from the stories of a fictional sporting gentleman narrated by RS Surtees. The original hotel was the Globe, one of several important coaching inns and hotels facing or near to the original route of London Road which becomes Matlock Road on the northern side. The original frontage included the adjacent building, there were also several complex changes behind which involved the purchase of two former pubs (The Black Boy and The Sun).
By 1935 plan the pub had just two public rooms, a public bar at the front with a long bar counter, and a smoke room at the rear with no bar service. A yard gave access the WCs and an exit onto Sadler Gate. The cellar stairs rose to a floor level hatch cover behind the bar, a feature that was once more common than today. The main surviving historic feature is now the leaded light front window which survived one attempt by its owners to have it removed.

Largely 18th Century multi room pub with drinking passageway. The snug is especially fine with a part glazed, curved partition, like the Holly Bush at Makeney. "Tudorisation" is in evidence, and the kitchen occupies the brew house which was used until 1918.

An inter war (Brewers Tudor) pub, including fine original features such as the panelled counter and arched fireplace in the front bar. Gents& toilets have original urinals and terrazzo floors.

The Old Bell Hotel is Derby's largest and last surviving coaching inn, a beacon of Derby&s history and heritage stretching back over 350 years, revived and restored by owner Paul Hurst. It was considered one of the most prestigious coaching inns outside of London. The Old Tudor Room (once a men-only preserve) has been restored to near its former glory. The front bar (the old "two steps down") has been restored to pristine condition. The former lounge, snug and snooker rooms have reverted to an ornate function room, almost as it was pre-war.
A black and white 17th century, three-storey, timbered building that stands with the entrance at right angles to Sadler Gate. It was the Meynell family who had this fine coaching inn built around 1680. John Campion acquired the freehold in 1780, and added a fine ballroom, which was subject to later alteration. During the floods of 1842, the nine year old grandson of John Campion II was (launched in a wash-tub in the cellars) – the purpose to save some vintage bottles of wine placed there by his great-grandfather!
Curiosities: The builders Ford and Weston added the mock-Tudor timbering as part of a decorative refurbishment in 1929, using timber that had been rescued from other local sites. The Old Bell was not just a coaching inn, it provided many essential services to the people of Derby, including a doctor&s surgery, courtroom and its cellars were even used as prison cells. Remnants of its past are dotted across the building with pathways and tunnels deep in the cellars that lead to various parts of the city.

For more information see the website Bell Hotel History.

This pub has had its history more carefully researched and documented than most. There was an archaeological survey in 2001 which uncovered remains of the original baths after which the pub is named. It was originally built in 1733 by William Chauncey as a rival to the spa of Buxton, but that role did not survive his own death in 1736. It spent almost a century as a private residence or possibly a farmhouse. The premises are listed Grade II; the listing description states the present outline to be from the early 19th Century. It became an inn in 1832, the year of the Beer Houses act which permitted any premises to be licensed on payment of £2 per year, but only for the sale of beer.
A major refurbishment in the 1980s was praised at the time for being less insensitive than most contemporary pub refurbishments. This has left a single open public area, though its original room divisions on two levels are clearly discernible. The function room at the rear of the pub spent some time as a boxing ring. A passageway opposite the end of the bar leads to the men&s lavatories and a side door. It is elegantly tiled in the Victorian or Edwardian Minton style.

The Smithfield is situated on the banks of the River Derwent. Opened in 1840 as the Cattle Market Hotel, it served the patrons of the Cattle Market which stood opposite until 1970. The pub was renamed the Smithfield in 1982. The pub was closed in 2011 and sold at auction in January 2012. It was refurbished and reopened in 2012. The market was later moved further west. The curving front to the building once formed a road corner for traffic passing over the Derwent bridge which was at the side of the pub. The hotel block stood to the side of the present pub in what is now the car park. The entrance to the back of the hotel block can still be seen in the present building to the side of the current enterance. The main building originally had a second front enterance closer to the river and can be seen by studying the different windows.
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Derby Telegraph – Cattle Market bridge
Derby Telegraph – Catlle Market bridge demolition

Situated in the Lock-up Yard, once the scene of the brutal murder of a policeman. It dates from 1737, de-signed by Joseph Pickford, when it operated as a coaching inn, and was originally much larger. It was used by travellers between London and Manchester, when the frontage stretched as far as the Cornmarket. The building was restored in 1990.
Located at western entrance to the covered market hall, facing the fish market. Narrow frontage opens onto spacious, many-angled interior providing plenty of snug, tucked away corners. Congenial tavern at-mosphere. Lock-Up Yard is named after the 19th century nick that once held four prisoners charged with plotting to kill Lloyd George (1917). A more recent claim is that it provides access for a subterranean trip down into the barrel-vaulted tunnels beneath the Guild Hall, in search of ghosts.

Celebrated; as Derby&s oldest pub, occupying a 16th century building. Not all as old as it looks, due to (Brewers Tudorisation) and restoration between the wars. A corridor passes through the building, connect-ing 4 rooms, all serviced by a central bar. The front bar quarry tiled, the Offilers Lounge is raised with the remains of bell pushes, there is a further lounge and tiny snug.