Cap & Stocking - Borough Street

The Cap & Stocking is located on what was known as Cap & Stocking Lane. Thomas Whitehead was licensee in 1846 and was to reign over this out of the way pub for the next 30 years, while at the same time operating as a coal merchant.

The present property was built on the site of the original in 1910. This necessitated use of a temporary hut in the garden as a bar: Landlord William Pegg Woolley and his family were housed in a nearby cottage. Members of his family ran the pub in both original and new guises for over 70 years, until his grandson, Arthur Large jnr. retired.

Woolley was a keen angler so it was natural that his pub should become the headquarters of the Kegworth & District Angling Society. Trophy fish caught by members of the Society were displayed in glass cases on the walls of the pub. Kegworth Rovers Football ,Club used the pub as a meeting place for many years. Even today, the Cap & Stocking retains the old fashioned method of delivering beer out of a jug long after all of the others in the village have switched to beer engine or electric pumps. The building has undergone a sympathetic refurbishment and extension with some of the Trophy fish still on display.