The Bear and Ragged Staff

The Bear and Ragged Staff is the county emblem of Warwickshire, and also the name of a public house swept away in the redevelopment of Bedworth town centre. The name lives on in this Wetherspoon pub.

Bedworth was largely created in Victorian times, as a result of weaving and coal mining. The town centre was comprehensively redeveloped in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the centuries old and well-known King's Head, at the top end of King Street, and the Old Pheasant, a little further down, both disappeared. So too did Bedworth's status as an urban district, in Warwickshire.