Time is right for city bar to be rejuvenated
A bar is to get a £100,000 revamp inspired by its former use.
Time Bar, next to the railway station in London Road, Leicester, is set to become The Parcel Yard.
The building, which has been Time Bar for 14 years, used to be the Red Star parcel yard, a sorting office for mail which arrived by train.
Owner Billy Allingham said the venue would be transformed with a "country pub" revamp, similar to other pubs in the Steamin Billy Group, of which it is part.
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"It is going to be completely different," he said.
"I don't want to give too much away but it's going to have a more traditional feel, in keeping with our other pubs, which have a more country feel to them."
Work has started. He hoped the pub would be ready in late February or early March.
Mr Allingham said a major part of the revamp would involve moving the kitchen from near the entrance to the back of the building, opening up the front of the pub.
The pub will have a greater emphasis on food, serving hot meals from 9am until 9pm.
"I think Time Bar has always been a bit of a Tardis and hopefully this will open it all up," he said.
"More skylights are going in, too, and we're changing the stairs.
"There are going to be leather wing backs and the booths will be remaining because they are so popular, but they will be reupholstered."
There will also be an arrivals and departures board.
"We are jumping on the back of the transformation at the railway station," he said.
The venue has applied to Leicester City Council to vary its premises licence, asking for permission to open and serve food from 9am until 2am every day and to serve alcohol from 11am.
To submit a comment about the application, visit:
www.leicester.gov.uk/licensing
6 Comments
by PLYMFOX01
Friday, March 15 2013, 4:47PM
“Apologies for the triple posting, the site was playing up last night when I tried to post my comments.”
by PLYMFOX01
Thursday, March 14 2013, 11:42PM
“Spent some time in there this evening with some friends, is a nice venue. The only down side is that if you are either teetotal (as I am) or you happen to be driving as is the case in most bars you get penalised by the high cost of soft drinks. £3.00 for a pint of lemonade????? I know bars etc have overheads but you can buy 2 litres in the supermarket for 60p.
As well as being the old Red Star parcels office etc at Leicester station, the front part of the building (on London Road) was the old British Rail enquiry office up to 1986. This then moved into what is now WH Smiths in the station booking hall.”
by PLYMFOX01
Thursday, March 14 2013, 11:41PM
“Spent some time in there this evening with some friends, is a nice venue. The only down side is that if you are either teetotal (as I am) or you happen to be driving as is the case in most bars you get penalised by the high cost of soft drinks. £3.00 for a pint of lemonade????? I know bars etc have overheads but you can buy 2 litres in the supermarket for 60p.
As well as being the old Red Star parcels office etc at Leicester station, the front part of the building (on London Road) was the old British Rail enquiry office up to 1986. This then moved into what is now WH Smiths in the station booking hall.”
by PLYMFOX01
Thursday, March 14 2013, 11:41PM
“Spent some time in there this evening with some friends, is a nice venue. The only down side is that if you are either teetotal (as I am) or you happen to be driving as is the case in most bars you get penalised by the high cost of soft drinks. £3.00 for a pint of lemonade????? I know bars etc have overheads but you can buy 2 litres in the supermarket for 60p.
As well as being the old Red Star parcels office etc at Leicester station, the front part of the building (on London Road) was the old British Rail enquiry office up to 1986. This then moved into what is now WH Smiths in the station booking hall.”
by Bluem00n
Wednesday, January 30 2013, 4:25PM
“Hope they continue with the fab cocktails - a great place to start the evening.”
by danny_
Wednesday, January 30 2013, 2:00PM
“Great stuff, I went to go into Time yesterday and was gutted it was closed - glad to see it's reopening, albeit in another guise. Other pubs in the Steamin Billy group like the western have a nice atmosphere to them too.
All the improvements sound spot on too, from the front of Time you would never have had any idea what it was like inside.”