Anchor Inn - Station Road

This pub is another of the four monuments in the village to the mock Tudor style of pub design, employed by Worthington and many other brewers in the 1920s. It was erected on the site of the previous Anchor that had served the trade created by the passage of commercial narrow boats through Kegworth on Soar Canal, which opened in 1778. In 1785 the pub was known as the Old Wool Pack. By 1828 William Pepper, from nearby Sutton Bonington, was licensee of the Anchor as well as a canal boat owner and coal merchant. The coal wharf was on the opposite side of the road to the Anchor, by the River Soar, and was used for this purpose by various merchants through to the 1970s. A private house was built on the site in 1997.

The pub remained in the Pepper family until about 1861, when it passed into the hands of the Brocklesby family for the next 37 years. Miss Helen Pepper, a village schoolmistress of the 1930s, well known for riding around the village on a sit up and beg bicycle, was a descendant of William Pepper.